Happy Fourth of July from Maxwell @ Apartment Therapy! -- July 4, 2017

On June 11, 1776, anticipating that the vote for independence would be favorable, Congress appointed a committee to draft a declaration: Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and John Adams of Massachusetts. Currier and Ives prepared this imagined scene for the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. (Image credit: Library of Congress) Waking this morning and walking across the Manhat...