This is a facsimile of the American Declaration of Independence printed using the Giclee method on sheep skin parchment made here in Montgomery, in New York State's historic Hudson River Valley. This parchment was produced by hand by Jesse Meyer, a living relative of John Adams a signer of the original Declaration of Independence. This is a replica of the Stone engraved version of the Declaration commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820 in recognition of the United States of America's 50th Anniversary and engraved by William J. Stone of Washington D.C.