"It is, and maybe this is something that I want it to be, it’s the corporate memory of this community.” And it brings to people who otherwise wouldn’t have access an enormous amount of information and services," Schrader says of the library. And the library is a good home for it, he says. The Declaration represents this country’s ideals, Schrader says. Thousands of students have filed past the copy of the Declaration on class field trips. "I can’t fault the decision at all,” he says. She had a good case for it and it prevailed," Schrader says. Library Director Lillian Bradshaw argued for a different home. George Schrader, who was city manager at the time, wanted it to stay there. It was first on display at Dallas City Hall. In 1982, with the help of 15 additional donors, the city of Dallas acquired the document. They put the print on a nationwide tour.ĭallas' very own Declaration of Independence resides at the downtown public library. The highest bidders? A pair of Dallas business executives: Joseph Driscoll and Ira Corn, Jr. Soon after being found, it was auctioned off for more than $400,000. “It was the ‘lost copy’ of the Declaration of Independence," Guidice says. This print didn’t surface until 1968, when it was found boxed up in a closed-down Philadelphia bookstore. The copy that lives in Dallas is a complete document. All the words are accounted for, she says. "When you compare them, some of the punctuation changes and there are actually some words missing in the existing documents." “These were hand-printed, so every single letter was a wooden piece hand set by John Dunlap," Guidice says. The official Declaration was based on one of Dunlap's prints, which were sent to colonial legislatures, committees of safety and armies to declare freedom from British rule. A Dunlap print of the Declaration is also on display in Dallas. Flickr Onlookers viewed a John Dunlap copy of the Declaration of Independence displayed at the Minnesota History Center after it was found at a flea market in 1989.
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