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library: Beinecke Library

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (USA)

Connecticut, Proclamation, 1783

If you look closely at this broadside, you might see that the text at the top and bottom have light shadows---a faint double impression caused by an accidental bounce of the paper on the inked type

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