America in the Original: Founding Documents, and Places that Still Hold Them

The parchment still exists. The rooms still stand. The maps still show a country being drawn into being. America in the Original is a photographic walk through the Charters of Freedom and the places that keep them: Independence Hall, the National Archives, the capital, the Mall, the Liberty Bell - documents first, then the land and the halls around them. Not a textbook. A coffee-table pilgrimage for Constitution Day through Christmas, built from National Archives scans, Library of Congress Highsmith stills, historic maps, and HABS view.s. - Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights in the original- Maps that turned colonies into a nation- Independence Hall and the rooms where the words became law- Washington's seats of power- Living places - the Bell, the Mall, the streets still in use The founding is not only a story. It is a set of objects, still on view.