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Show hhh i m hm m w m ! !! m -t V Tne Oilginal Declaration of H Independence H '. Tlie original Decimation of Indop- K 4endencc is in so dilapidated a condition H that nowadays it is rarely if over ex- H posed to public view. The Ladies' ' .,'IIoine Journal was rerently granted H" , 'special permission by tho Secretary of H ,f. Stato to mako n single exposure of the J document to the camera, and will re- produce tho photograph, which U a re- 'inarluihly clear one, in the July issue of H -,; tliat magazine. Exposure to light and H 1 thcprocess of making a duplicate copy H -of tlie Declaration have faded the ink H fin the historic document, but it is still H dcgiblo. Some of the signatures are H weurly faded out. John Hancock, how- H f ever, seems to have used imperishable H ink, for his name stands black and bold , on the parchment, which is now kept in m ,, a steel safe, out of the sunlight ond out H f' of the public's view. |