Franklin selling his ballads in the streets of Boston / Charles E. Mills 1908. – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Franklin selling his ballads in the streets of Boston / Charles E. Mills 1908. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Franklin selling his ballads in the streets of Boston / Charles E. Mills 1908.
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Young Benjamin Franklin is shown hawking printed ballads on a Boston street, a scene drawn from his own account of boyhood. In his *Autobiography*, Franklin recalls that his older brother James printed the ballads he wrote and that he sold them himself, an early taste of the printing trade that would shape his life. Charles E. Mills painted the scene in 1908, and this print from about 1914 reproduces that painting as issued by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its color photographic views of the period. The picture was a popular way to present Franklin as a self-made young man.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Paintings 1900-1910 Reproductions 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J198444 or J198445 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. Selling--Massachusetts--Boston--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,686 × 3,801 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220728 |
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