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Original – The signed copy of the Declaration. Now badly faded, because of poor preserving practices in the 19th century, is on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Reason
We already have as a featured picture the facsimile version, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Us_declaration_independence.jpg however, I felt it would be prudent to feature this high resolution scan of the actual document as well, provided by the National Archives. Perhaps we could place them together in a two-picture set.
Articles in which this image appears
Historical document, Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and religion, United States Declaration of Independence
FP category for this image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/USA_History
Creator
Scanned by the National Archives
Note: That FP is not a scan of the original, but is the version most used in WP. We should D&R. --WingtipvorteX PTT 00:10, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree on D&R. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 12:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, I disagree. Seeing the texture of the document is really negligible to me compared with the ability to read the original handwriting. But actually, they both have high EV - of different kinds (this one shows the texture, current FP shows the handwriting). So I removed the oppose vote, and I disagree that only one pictrue should be featured. Tomer T (talk) 10:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:USA declaration independence.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]