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Bronze statue of a man working a printing press – Vintage Print

Bronze statue of a man working a printing press — historic print
Bronze statue of a man working a printing press. Historic print from the Presidents collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Bronze statue of a man working a printing press, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Bronze statue of a man working a printing press

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The bronze shows Franklin at work on a printing press rather than in the frock-coated, standing pose used in many of his public memorials, a choice that points to the trade he practiced for much of his early life. As a teenager he was apprenticed to his older brother James, a Boston printer, and he later set up his own shop in Philadelphia, where he published the Pennsylvania Gazette and, beginning in 1732, Poor Richard's Almanack. The sculpture honors the printer who learned his craft by hand before he became a diplomat and inventor, and its focus on labor rather than political achievement is worth noticing.

Original scan3,072 × 2,304 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference2893587538_98e88632af_o Joseph Brown 'Benjamin Franklin' 1981, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania hanneorla

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