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January 25, 2007: American Founding Documents on Exhibit in Massachusetts Library

"But there's more: original printings of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation are encased in glass, and the library boasts that it's the only institution other than the National Archives to possess all four of the country's so-called founding documents."

"'Seeing them together puts you right in that moment of history,' said Wayne Hammond, the Chapin's assistant librarian and one of its three staff members since 1976."

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