Benjamin Franklin Born in Boston Jany 17th 1706 Died in Philadelphia April 17th 1790, 1847 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his shoulder straps speaking the

his shoulder straps speaking the language of a republic that promoted its politicians into uniform

its looping prisoners traced in the spidery ink of an ephemeris

the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry

into scripture

Benjamin Franklin Born in Boston Jany 17th 1706 Died in Philadelphia April 17th 1790, 1847 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his shoulder straps speaking theBenjamin Franklin Born in Boston Jany 17th 1706 Died in Philadelphia April 17th 1790, 1847 an 1847 commemorative engraving that fixes the printer statesman between his two cities, half a century after his death, when a younger republic was busy canonizing its founders in ink and bookplate as it argued over what their union was now for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the