More Ben Franklins Needed!

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Frank Romano shows us his collection of Benjamin Franklin-related items:

https://d3a577syzx0or3.cloudfront.net/video/2024-11-frank-franklin.mp4

There's more talks by Frank, on various subjects, here: What They Th!nk

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I have just posted this in the Making a Pressman's Hat - video thread, but thought it would fit here as well
 
'Young Franklin at the Pres's, an 1876 oil painting by Enoch Wood Perry Jr.       By age 23, Franklin was printing and writing for the Pennsylvania Gazette
Benjamin Franklin wearing a printer's hat.

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There have been many postage stamps honouring Benjamin Franklin but the ones that are of interest I have posted in the Postage Stamps thread. I post them here as well to save anyone trawling through that thread if they want to view the stamps.

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From the Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, Coins etc. thread

Sugar Packet for the American Revolution Bicentennial - Benjamin Franklin



Commemorative medal from 1969      The International Association of Printing House Craftmen, Inc.

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Franklin Printing Press    Smithsonian Institution    Postcard

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On the front cover of the October 1936 issue of 'Paper & printing Digest'

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'Making of a Modern Newspaper'  THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD Series postcard
A series of ten postcards.  Number 1 was Ben Franklin

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Bronze statue young Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For their 250th anniversary, the Pennsylvania Freemasons commissioned artist Joseph Brown to design a larger than life-size sculpture of Benjamin Franklin to be installed near their headquarters at the Masonic Temple at 1 North Broad Street across from City Hall.

The sculpture was dedicated and gifted to the City of Philadelphia on June 27, 1981.

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The Saturday Evening Post started publication in 1897.

Its origins can be traced to Benjamin Franklin's colonial newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette.