Sources
- https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs
The National Archives is the authoritative source for high-resolution images of the U.S. founding documents, including the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. This directly supports the claim about the availability of large, high-resolution files. - https://www.archives.gov/preservation/formats/digital-formats.html
This page from the National Archives discusses digital preservation formats, including the challenges of large file sizes and high resolutions, which aligns with the blog post's discussion of file size and resolution issues. - https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667579/
The Library of Congress provides access to high-resolution images of historical documents, including the Stone Engraving of the Declaration of Independence, which supports the blog post's mention of the Stone Engraving. - https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
This page provides a transcript of the U.S. Constitution, which can be used to verify the accuracy of the content presented in the blog post's images. - https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Similar to the Constitution transcript, this page provides a transcript of the Declaration of Independence, supporting the blog post's claims about the accuracy and readability of the presented documents.
Key Points
- High-resolution images from US Government archives are large (8-16MB each) and not optimized for web viewing.
- Existing shrunken images on some sites are often unreadable.
- This site offers enhanced, web-resolution images designed for actual-size reading.
- Users can click on thumbnails to view documents at their intended size.
- These are the only web images of Documents of Freedom presented in actual size for reading.
- Available documents include The US Constitution (Pages 1, 3, 4), The Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence (both parchment and Wm. J. Stone Engraving versions).
Summary
This blog post highlights the challenges of accessing high-resolution US Government archive documents, which are often too large for practical web use or too small to read clearly. The author offers optimized, web-friendly versions of key historical documents like the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence, presented in actual size for easy reading. Users can click thumbnails to view enhanced, readable versions unavailable elsewhere online.
While high-resolution images are availble at US Government archives, they are very large files (8-16MB each), hard to use because of their size, and are at print resolution of 300 dpi which is wasted in simply viewing.
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Some sites have shrunken images that are nearly impossible to read.
What is presented here are actual size (or nearly so) images at web resolution enhanced for reading.
Simply click on the thumbnail of where you wish to begin.
These are the only web images of these Documents of Freedom design for reading which are presented in actual size!
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