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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, as a youth, walking with stick and sack in one hand, in front of a doorway in which is standing young woman, Deborah Reade] – Antique Wall Art

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, as a youth, walking with stick and sack in one hand, in front of a doorway in which is standing young woman, Deborah Reade] — historic photograph
[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, as a youth, walking with stick and sack in one hand, in front of a doorway in which is standing young woman, Deborah Reade]. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(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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[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, full length, as a youth, walking with stick and sack in one hand, in front of a doorway in which is standing young woman, Deborah Reade]

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In this image, a youthful Benjamin Franklin walks with a stick and a sack, stopping before a doorway where Deborah Read, the young woman who later became his wife, stands. The scene recalls the familiar story of Franklin's arrival in Philadelphia around 1723, when he was about 17 and entered the city on foot with little money. The photograph is dated to about 1923, so it is a twentieth-century staging of that legend, the kind of dramatized image that was common in popular histories of the founders.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1923 July 31.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,150 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130429

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