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Starting their U.S. Visit, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip view cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia yesterday. The Queen formally presented America(...)
Starting their U.S. Visit, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip view cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia yesterday. The Queen formally presented America(...)

Starting their U.S. Visit, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip view cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia yesterday. The Queen formally presented America(...)

Date7/6/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Starting their U.S. Visit; Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip view cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia yesterday. The Queen formally presented American people with a new bicentennial bell to replace the Liberty Bell. In presenting the new British-cast bell; hung in a new tower; she said it was inscribed Let Freedom Ring. With that; she and Prince pressed a button and set the five-ton bell-the biggest cast in the Whitechapel foundry since Big Ben in 1853-booming.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0122971F