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VRA Core 4 Example 17: Textual manuscript
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Work record [refid 4]
agent Thomas Jefferson (American author, 1743-1826)
culturalContext American
date 1776 (creation)
description Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); http://www.archives.gov/ (accessed 2/23/2009) [description source]
inscription For full transcription, see <http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html> For a list of the 56 signers, see <http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_signers_factsheet.html>
location National Archives Building (Washington, District of Columbia, United States) [repository]
In the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom [location note]
material ink on parchment
measurements 75.56 cm (height) x 62.23 cm (width)
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source Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)
stateEdition
stylePeriod Eighteenth century
subject rulers and leaders; typography or calligraphy; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783; United States. Continental Congress; textual work; independence; social contract; colonies; England; United States; separation; dissolution
technique calligraphy (process); writing (process)
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title Declaration of Independence [popular, true, en]
worktype manuscripts (document genre)
image courtesy National Archives (NARA)
Image record [refid 103]
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measurements 18 MB
relation [imageOf 4, Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)]
rights publicDomain
source VRA Data Standards Committee, Core 4 Sample Records
http://www.core.vraweb.org/examples/html/example017_full.html [href]
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); http://www.archives.gov/ [source of image]
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title Overall view of front of parchment
worktype digital image
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