Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art its interior helix of stairs

its interior helix of stairs winding up through bolted ring-segments toward the lantern room

arranging the first ten executives in lithographed council

and lived to purchase Alaska from a tsar

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art its interior helix of stairsBenjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 a commemorative likeness honoring Franklin not as statesman or sage but as the ink stained tradesman who set type along Market Street, issued in the bicentennial mood of a republic about to discover what world war required of its founders' inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical