Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Found
Exterior of Independence Hall
The Liberty Bell (foreground) was housed in the highest chamber of the brick tower from the 1780s until the 1850s
The Assembly Room, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were both authored and adopted in 1776 and 1787, respectively
Congress Voting Independence, a 1795 portrait by Robert Edge Pine depicting the Assembly Room in present-day Independence Hall during the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence, headed The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America on the document directed to be engrossed by Congress on July 19, 1776, is the founding docume
Independence Hall
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The 1823 facsimile of Timothy Matlack's engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration
The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, a 1900 portrait by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicting Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration