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Mary Katherine Goddard: Declaration of Independence
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Exhibition curator Edith Mayo explains
that Mary Katherine Goddard achieved fame as the printer of the first
copies of the Declaration of Independence with signers’ names
included. Mayo says that the Goddard display is a starting place for
understanding the ways in which women overcame the legal disadvantages
that held them back from achieving economic independence in eighteenth-century
America. She also describes a number of models set up to recreate
a print shop “as it might have been when Katherine Goddard was
printing the Declaration.” |
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