A working press. Austin, Texas.
History has
a pulse.
The Declaration. The founding documents. Words that still move us, printed on our own press by a family shop in Austin, Texas.
The first impression / No. 01The Declaration of Independence ↗
From the shop floor
Thomas Graphics · Austin
The Declaration / Our first impression
The words that moved a nation.
A sheet that moves you.
Set in Caslon, the type of the broadside John Dunlap ran on the night of July 4, 1776: the truths held self-evident, monumental, in the two inks of the early press. Printed on heavy cream stock, on our own press, by a family print shop in Austin, Texas.
Museum-grade broadsides of America's founding documents, printed on our own press in Austin, Texas. From $9.
Words made to live with
Give history a place on your wall.
A broadside puts the document itself in the room. The Declaration in a study. The Preamble in a classroom. Words to read again, printed on a sheet made to be kept.
01 · Download · $7–9
Print it tonight
Buy the file, print it at home or the corner print counter, sized for 8.5 × 11 up to 18 × 24. The same typesetting as the press run.
02 · Press print · $38–46
Off our press, in a tube
Printed on heavy cream stock in Austin, rolled around a core, and shipped to your door. Free U.S. shipping on prints over $75.
03 · Numbered edition · $145–175
The keeper
Cotton paper, numbered of 250, embossed with the maker's mark, inspected and signed off by hand before it leaves the shop.
Room I
The Documents
Five sheets that argued a nation into existence. Read them the way they were first read: in ink, at arm's length, on a wall.
For the classroom
Six documents. One wall.
The five documents and the timeline of the Revolution, sourced, dated, and sized for the room. A download you print tonight, or six sheets from our press in one tube.
Digital set $24 · Printed set $150
See the set Teachers and co-ops
Room II
Words they actually said.
The most famous lines in American history, typeset as broadside art for your wall. Franklin, Adams, Henry, Paine, Jefferson, Lincoln: each one checked against the letter, speech, or journal it actually comes from, with the source printed on the sheet itself. Half the founder quotes online were never said; every one of these was. Hang the words, keep the receipt.
Room III
Portraits, Maps & Texas
Washington to Lincoln: they sat for history and the painters knew it. A country drawn on paper before it existed on land, and the Republic next door, printed an hour from where it was declared.
Room IV
The Western Canon
Homer, the Gospel of Matthew, Augustine, Dante, Rembrandt and Blake. Poetry, scripture, prayer and art, with sources and translations close at hand. Contemporary broadsides and art reproductions, printed in Austin.
The place behind the paper
A real press.
A lasting impression.
Before a broadside reaches your wall, it belongs to a trade. Paper moving through a press. Type given weight in ink. A sheet inspected before it leaves the shop.
Thomas Broadside Co. brings the founding documents of America and the Western canon into the rooms where we live, learn, and work.
From the pressroom
Journal
One entry per anniversary: the story behind each sheet, told from the shop floor.
2026-09-17
Constitution Day, and why the Preamble is set in one sentence
The Preamble is fifty-two words and one sentence. We set it that way on purpose.
Some words belong in the room.
Give them a place on your wall.