Decorate your home or office with this framed reproduction. The "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" by John Trumbull is a highly recognizable historical painting. However, the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence occurred over a period of time, and the event was never captured in a single moment as depicted in the painting.

A similarly iconic piece of artwork, and likewise just a symbolic representation of the event, showing the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence together in the same painting is Berry Faulkner's Declaration Mural, housed in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., right above the original Declaration of Independence. 

According to oral history, in 1776, George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross visited Betsy Ross at her upholstery shop in Philadelphia. Washington presented a sketch of a flag for Betsy to make, comprised of 13 red and white stripes and 13 six-pointed stars.

On May 29, 1777, Betsy Ross was paid by the Pennsylvania State Navy Board for making flags. On June 14, 1777, Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as our official national flag.