Keywords: Dunlap Broadside (Declaration of Independence) - NARA - 301682.tif Scope and content This is the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence Drafted for the most part by Thomas Jefferson the Declaration of Independence justified breaking the colonial ties to Great Britain by providing a basic philosophy of government and a list of grievances against the Crown John Dunlap of Philadelphia was the printer to the Continental Congress General notes Exhibit History American Originals December 1995 - December 1996 National Archives Rotunda Washington DC 624 0004 Also reproduced in Pages of History 624 0038 301682 Local identifier Second Continental Congress 09/05/1775 - 03/02/1781 Archives I Reference Section Textual Archives Services Division NWCT1R National Archives Building 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20408 1776-07-04 Record group Record Group 360 Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention 1765 - 1821 Record group ARC 667 Rough Journals compiled 09/05/1774 - 03/02/1789 Series ARC 301681 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWCTB-360-ITEM1-ITEM1VOL3P94<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDT1-360-ITEM1-ITEM1VOL3P94<br /> Search Identifier si1783 Subject or Citizen <br /> Search Identifier siBig Exhibit<br /> Search Identifier siNational History Standard Era 3 yes Other versions <gallery> File Dunlap_Broadside_ Declaration_of_Independence _-_NARA_-_301682 tif tif File Dunlap_Broadside_ Declaration_of_Independence _-_NARA_-_301682 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Dunlap Broadside NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs |