NEW YORK — It was January of 1777 when the second official printing of the Declaration of Independence was completed in Baltimore, Maryland. At the bottom is the name of the woman who printed it: Mary Katharine Goddard, a prominent printer and Baltimore’s first postmaster.
The document is among the items featured in the Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures at the Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue and part of a self-guided tour celebrating Women’s History Month.
“To have her name on this really assigns her endorsement of the revolution, but she is also making a pretty clear statement: ‘I am a
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