Benjamin Owen Tyler. Subscription book for a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, 1815-1818. Front Cover. (MSS 12143)

Manuscript subscription book for his facsimile Declaration of Independence [manuscript], 1815-1818.

Front Cover

Front Cover

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

Tyler, Benjamin Owen, 1789-

Wirt, William, 1772-1834

United States.

United States Sanitary Commission.

Tyler's subscription book for the first publication of a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence consists of 10 pages containing the names of more than 1000 subscribers including original signer Thomas Jefferson as well as other notables of the new republic including James Madison, John Q. Adams, John Marshall, Richard M. Johnson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, William Wirt, and William H. Crawford.

At the back of the volume are five pages of subscribers to a print of "Naval Monument Heroes," many of whom also subscribed to the Declaration facsimile.

Tyler's prospectuses for the Declaration facsimile and the volume on naval heroes are included inside the front and back covers respectively.

Labels pasted on the cover and inside cover identify the volume as No. 651 exhibited at the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1864.

Tyler's subscription book for the first publication of a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence consists of 10 pages containing the names of more than 1000 subscribers including original signer Thomas Jefferson as well as other notables of the new republic including James Madison, John Q. Adams, John Marshall, Richard M. Johnson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, William Wirt, and William H. Crawford.

At the back of the volume are five pages of subscribers to a print of "Naval Monument Heroes," many of whom also subscribed to the Declaration facsimile.

Tyler's prospectuses for the Declaration facsimile and the volume on naval heroes are included inside the front and back covers respectively.

Benjamin O. Tyler. Declaration of Independence Facsimile Subscription Book, 1815-1818, in the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection, Accession #12143, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Gift of Albert H. Small, December 2001.

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