Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• manuscripts • documents
*Work
Type [link]:
• manuscript
*Title:
Declaration of Independence
*Creator
Display: Thomas Jefferson (American,
1743-1826)
*Role
[link]: author [link]: Jefferson,
Thomas
*Creation
Date: 1776 [controlled]: •
Earliest: 1776 • Latest: 1776
*Subject
[links]: • textual work •
independence • social contract •
Continental Congress (United States) •
colonies • England • United
States • separation • dissolution
Culture [link]:
American
*Current
Location [link]: National
Archives and Record Administration (Washington,
District of Columbia, United States) •
ID: unavailable
*Measurements:
75.56 x 62.23 cm (29 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches)
[controlled]: • Value:
75.56 Unit:
cm Type: height
| • Value:
62.23 Unit:
cm Type: width
*Materials
and Techniques: ink on parchment
Material [links]:
• ink • parchment
Inscriptions: text
reads: 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.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all
Men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator / with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
of Happiness...
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