A very special document has taken center stage at the Lilly Library... 👀 When you imagine the Declaration of Independence, you most likely picture a yellowed, inked manuscript, complete with dozens of names — including John Hancock's famously large signature at the bottom. But that wasn't the first edition ever made. Before the words could be memorialized, the message had to be spread. On the night of July 4, 1776, a print maker in Philadelphia was tasked by Congress to create the first publica