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Okay. And we continue with our American stories. The Declaration of Independence is one of, if not the most important, documents. in American history, and for that matter, world history. and it goes deeper than just its historical relevance.
For most Americans, their very idea of what constitutes our core values comes directly from the words in the Declaration. But for all of its weight and power, we don't hang a replica of the original on our walls. That's because the document is nearly faded into oblivion. We hang a copy, a readable copy, on our walls. And we can thank an immigrant for that.
Theodore Omen. Here to share the story of the man who made America's favorite copy of the Declaration is Mark Hill.
So Theodore Oman was born in 1892. Interestingly enough, he actually lived very close to Franz Ferdinand's castle. Franz Ferdinand, who many may know. It was the assassination of him and his wife in 1914 that started World War I. It ignited World War I.
So when Ullmann grew up, It really wasn't the freest country in the world. They did have a government, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire was trying to maintain control, and the last thing they wanted. was for democratic ideas to be taught. But Oman did have a teacher who taught her class about the Declaration of Independence. and he thought it was the greatest document ever written.
Another important thing that happened in his life as he was growing up in Bohemia is he was taught about the art of lithography from his grandfather. The process was Uh taking a Image And transferring that image onto a metal plate, which sometimes was made out of zinc or some other materials. And they would burn the image into the plate. From a negative, in this case a glass negative, they would shine a light through it. And you'd lay down the ink, and the ink would only adhere to where you wanted it to adhere.
So, in this case, it would only adhere to the script. And he mastered that skill set, as is evidenced by. the workmanship of what he created. which is arguably The most lifelike replica of the Declaration of Independence ever made. He basically created a replica of the Declaration as to how it looked.
when it was signed. And how he did that is Pretty amazing. He eventually comes to America in 1912 at the age of 20. He's a civil engineer. He's building roads and bridges.
And he's also a map maker. By trade. He used his lithographic skills to make maps. He ends up meeting his wife in Keokuk, Iowa. He was building a road there.
Her name was Georgia. They had two kids, they had six grandchildren. and they ended up making their home in Memphis, Tennessee. Eventually, he drives up to Washington, D.C. to see the Declaration in person.
And he was very excited, but when he got there and he looked at it, he was actually shocked at the condition it's in. It's worn, it's faded. Many of the names of the signers can barely be read.
Some of them can't be read.
Some of the script is very faded.
So he goes back home to Memphis and he decides to use his skills as a lithographer to create what he ended up referring to as Omen's authentic restoration of the Declaration of Independence. He ends up finding and purchasing what's known as a stone print.
So William Stone made 200 copies in 1823 per the direction of James Monroe, who was president at the time. It's believed, it's not known for sure, but when William Stone made. those two hundred copies They believe he used a wet process, which means he laid the document onto a copper plate. And when he drew it back, some of the ink was peeled off the original document, you know, left onto the copper plate. That's most likely what started the degradation of the declaration.
It's been missing, it was mishandled for many years, but that's most historians believe that's why it's in the shape it's in today, where you can barely read some of the names of the signers. But he ended up finding in a little antique shop a really interesting. Copy of the Declaration and he bought it. It ended up being a stone print. He did his research and found out it was a stone print.
So that's what he used to perfect the script of his work.
Now, That's one part of it. If you see a stone print, they're pretty boring. I mean, the script is perfect, but there's no, you know, the background isn't the same as the original. And that's what Ollman wanted to create. He wanted to, he knew that the original was written on a piece of animal skin, and the cracks and crevices are unique to that animal.
So, how do you get the background match both the script and the background?
So he did some research and found out there was a guy named L C Handy who took pictures of the Declaration outside his case in 1903.
So he went to L C Handy's widow and he purchased a set of negatives from her.
Okay, and that's what gave him the ability to recreate in its exact likeness the background of the Declaration.
So he used the stone print to do the script. He used the LC handy negatives to get the background. When he was done with the stone print, he actually donated it to the Library of Congress, which is really amazing because those are very valuable. There's only 40 or 50 known in existence. He thought that the American people should have it, so he did donate it back to the Library of Congress.
It took him probably, I know it took him at least five years to create this first masterpiece because the glass negatives, glass positives, The crates that hold those plates and the boxes actually have dates written on them that are five years prior to when he actually printed his works. Oman did, after many years of work, a lot of money, a lot of time, he ended up printing about 30,000 copies in 1942 of what, again, what he referred to as Oman's authentic restoration of the Declaration of Independence. And he recouped some of the money he spent making it by selling them to companies who would overprint their company name and logo at the top, and then they would use them as gifts for customers and clients.
So he was able to recoup some of the costs. When I purchased the collection, there were only 1,200 of his original lithographs of the Declaration remaining. A few years after he gets done printing the Declaration, he started working on a replica of the U.S. Constitution. And I know that took him at least four years, and that was really interesting what he did there.
He took all four pages of the US Constitution and he shrunk them down in size. He added the Bill of Rights, which he printed at the bottom, and he sized the entire piece to be very similar to the size of the Declaration. And the reason he did that was so that they were symmetrical and they were pleasing to the eye when you frame them and hung them on the wall. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery and our own Reagan Habib. And a special thanks to Mike Hill.
He's the curator and overseer of the Omen Estate. And what a story. This guy grows up in the Austria-Hungary Empire. But he had a teacher who taught him about the Declaration of Independence, and from those thousands of miles away, he develops a deep. Deep appreciation of the Declaration.
Comes to America in 1912, civil engineer, map maker, but he used his lithograph skills to bring the Declaration of Independence to life. When he went to DC, he was horrified at the condition it was in. It had faded, you could barely read the signers of the Declaration's signatures. It took him years to create this masterpiece. And thank goodness he created 30,000 of them and they live on.
And now with the age of digital technology, people would say, oh, yawn. But no, Jan, this was the lifework of this man and out of appreciation for what our founders did back in 1776. The story of the immigrant who created the best copy of the Declaration of Independence here on our American stories. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weatherbug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need, from storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips.
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