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[WWI]. A Declaration In the Name of God, Amen… Forest Hills Gardens, Fourth of July, 1917. Lithographed broadside printed in black, red, white on laid-paper. Approximately 530 x 404 mm. Some edgewear, mild dampstaining, one horizontal crease. “To all people to whom these presents shall come, be seen or heard, Know Ye, that on the 4th day of July, it is our Custom to celebrate with much publick merrie-making & diverse entertainment… NOW in the one hundred and forty-first year of our Establishment because of Injustice, Grievances and Oppression, we are at war, so let our Colonie celebrate meetly the Day whereon our Liberty was first confirmed that with stout heart we may affirm those principles of Government by the People for the People for which our Forefathers fought that the world may be made safe for Democracy.”