Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh his burin tracing the quiet

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

the old Marion Hotel

Triennial Committee KT City of Chicago Illinois 1880s — a Knights Templar conclave document from the Gilded Age Midwest

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

and anyone who appreciates the craft of the close shave

Benjamin Franklin 1779 framed sleigh his burin tracing the quietBenjamin 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,