Entitled: "Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776." Shows Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson meeting at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence. On J

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Entitled: "Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776." Shows Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson meeting at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence. On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration. Reproduction of oil painting from series: Pageant of A Nation, artist, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

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