IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
1776 · DUNLAP SETTING
The Declaration of Independence
Set in Caslon, the type of the broadside John Dunlap ran on the night of July 4, 1776. Every line from the National Archives.
| source | National Archives, engrossed copy |
|---|---|
| typeface | Caslon, as in 1776 |
| paper | 100 lb cream cover, 18 x 24 · also 24 x 36 |
| press | Thomas Graphics, Austin, Texas |
| edition | Numbered of 250, cotton paper, embossed maker's mark |
On the night of July 4, 1776, the printer John Dunlap set the Declaration in Caslon and ran roughly two hundred broadsides before dawn. This sheet follows the Dunlap setting; every line is taken from the National Archives transcription of the engrossed copy. Printed on our own press in Austin, Texas.
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