[lg policy] The cartoon about the first printing of the US Declaration of Independence

[Dennis Baron]

Hal, this is from 
The Germans in America.
Main Author:	Huebener, Theodore, 1895-
Language(s):	English
Published:	Philadelphia, Chilton Co., Book Division [c1962]


which is the work that the source cited in the cartoon "lifted" the material from. No idea, however, whether this is reliable. But it's a start if you want to hunt it down. Many of these rah-rah German books aren't too reliable--eg, they're the source of the German lost by one vote as the US official language myth.

Dennis
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On Jul 4, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Harold Schiffman wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have digitized the cartoon depicting the story of the first printing
> of the US Declaration
> of Independence, which appeared in German in the German newspaper
> Pennsylvanischer
> Staatsbote, on July 5, 1776.
> 
> The cartoon images are on our cartoons page at
> http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/cartoons/cartoons.html
> 
> HS
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>  Harold F. Schiffman
> 
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>  Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
> Dept. of South Asia Studies
> University of Pennsylvania
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