Twenty-six copies of the Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence are known to exist.
John Dunlap printed the broadsides in Philadelphia on the night of July 4 and into the early hours of July 5, 1776. They were among the first public printings of the Declaration, produced before the famous engrossed parchment copy was signed by the delegates in August.
The exact original print run is unknown, but historians estimate that about 200 copies were made. The surviving sheets are especially important because they show the Declaration as it first circulated publicly. Unlike the later engrossed document, a Dunlap broadside does not list the individual delegates’ signatures; it identifies John Hancock and secretary Charles Thomson in the printed text.
The known total has grown through archival discoveries. Fourteen copies were known in 1949, 24 by 1989, and later discoveries brought the recognized number to 26. The count refers to surviving copies identified by scholars, not to every copy that may still be hidden in a private collection or archive.