Fac Simile of the Original Draught of the Declaration of Independence in General Congress Assembled 4th July 1776 Size:24x36 perhaps too well

perhaps too well

his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a fracturing republic on their shoulders

William Henry Harrison Late President of the United States 1841 — a mourning portrait issued in the strange hush after thirty-one days in office

where the draftsman's lines trace the cylindrical shell and lantern-room geometry of a sentinel built to weather hurricanes no keeper could outrun

and the quiet shimmer of riverfront shipyards

Fac Simile of the Original Draught of the Declaration of Independence in General Congress Assembled 4th July 1776 Size:24x36 perhaps too wellFac Simile of the Original Draught of the Declaration of Independence in General Congress Assembled 4th July 1776 Jefferson's working manuscript reproduced with every interlineation and strikethrough intact, the marginal corrections of Adams and Franklin still visible in the hand of men arguing, line by line, over how a new nation should introduce itself to the world. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical