Franklin's Birthplace – Historic Print
![Franklin's Birthplace, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40a5444a7c6d-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Franklin's Birthplace, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Franklin's Birthplace
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Unlike the portraits of Benjamin Franklin elsewhere on this board, this wood engraving shows the place where he began his life: the Boston house on Milk Street where he was born on January 17, 1706, the youngest son of a tallow chandler and soap maker. *Harper's Weekly*, an illustrated New York newspaper, ran engravings like this to bring historic sites to a national readership, and this one appeared on page 500 of volume 16. The caption card gives no date, so the engraver and exact year of publication remain uncertain, but the subject reflects a nineteenth-century interest in tracing the origins of national heroes.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 16, p. 500. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,361 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-107543 |
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