Great story here of how, on the evening of 4 July 1776, John Dunlap's type compositors were hyper-accurate in recreating the handwritten manuscript by Thomas Jefferson, which Charles Thomson had brought to the print shop, reproduced his "double diacriticals" as inverted commas.
Click here for the Library of Congress webinar by Patrick Hastings, Curator, Rare Book and Special Collections Division - jump to 10 minutes in to see the inverted commas.
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