00:00So the first printing of the Declaration of Independence was done on the night of July 4th in Philadelphia at the print shop of John Dunlap.
00:08Approximately 200 of those were printed and 26 are known to survive.
00:13From there, other printers in other cities throughout the brand new United States began printing their own.
00:21And we are very lucky to have an example that's attributed to a printer in Exeter, New Hampshire by the name of Robert Louis Foll.
00:29It's historically significant because you get to see what people at the time actually saw.
00:35When we think of the Declaration of Independence, we have in our mind this piece of parchment with script on it.
00:41Most people would never have seen that.
00:43This is the way that everyday Americans would have encountered the Declaration of Independence,
00:47whether it was tacked to a wall or read from the pulpit of their local congregation.
00:52Rufus King's draft of the Constitution is a printed draft that was printed five days before the final version was issued on 17 September 1787.
01:04What's so remarkable about it is that this is the Constitution taking final form.
01:11You can see the edits being made in real time.
01:14So this puts you directly in Independence Hall as they're drafting and making the final changes and edits to this remarkable document.
01:23This is a printed, authorized printed edition of the Emancipation Proclamation that was commissioned for the Great Central Fair,
01:31which was known as a sanitary fair.
01:34They were held to raise money to support Union troops and Union veterans.
01:38This one is held in June of 1864 in Philadelphia.
01:42Lincoln and together with his Secretary of State William Seward and his Secretary John Nicolay signed 48 copies of this.
01:50They were sold for $20 at the fair and not all of them sold at the time.
01:55Private collectors play an important role.
01:58They save things, they preserve things, and ultimately they pass on their collections.
02:04You almost feel the electricity from these relics of the past and their impact on the people who not only read these documents,
02:15but fought for what they were calling for.
02:18Private Jahres
02:28Private Ahora
02:33Terribor
02:34En pais
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