Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the avenue below hushed by

the avenue below hushed by the cathedral's long ecclesiastical shadow

his burin tracing the quiet revolution by which American books finally learned to illustrate themselves

or the kind of library that still smells faintly of pipe smoke

the old Marion Hotel

Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh the avenue below hushed byBenjamin 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,