Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 21 Dec 2009 05:26:54 -0800628_utf-8 In January of 1777, the Continental Congress commissioned Mary Katharine Goddard of Baltimore to print the first copy of the Declaration of Independence to reveal the identity of the signers. Only nine known copies of the Goddard Broadside exist today. To honor our Founding Fathers and this Daughter of Liberty, artist Mindy Belloff has reproduced Goddard’s elegant two-column design, hand set in Caslon typeface as the original, and letterpress printed them one at a time on custom handmade paper. Her print shop is located on Union Square in New York City, and has the feel of a vintage studio reminiscent [...]43_21Dec200905:26:[log in to unmask] |