The Declaration in Script and Print

A Visual History of America's Founding Document

af John Bidwell

Perhaps the single most important founding document of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence became both a work of art and a mass-market commodity during the nineteenth century. This book traces the fascinating history of Declaration prints and broadsides and reveals the American public's changing attitudes toward this iconic text. The new and improved intaglio, letterpress, and lithographic printing technologies of the nineteenth century led to increasingly elaborate rep... (Læs mere)