Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the roster posed in heavy

the roster posed in heavy flannels and laced collars

frozen on cheap cardstock and given away with a winter coat

the silver hull tethered against a city of lit windows

issued in the centennial year when the Republic was busy reconciling itself to its quarrelsome founders

A genealogical lithograph in the Victorian funerary mode

Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the roster posed in heavyBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,