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The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket; by Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin – Historic Print

The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket; by Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin — antique engraving
The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket; by Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin. Antique engraving 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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Step back in time with The art of making money plenty in every man's pocket; by Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin, an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The title promises a remedy for scarce cash: "The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket," credited to "Doctor Franklin." That credit ties the piece to Benjamin Franklin's long argument for paper currency in colonial Pennsylvania, where hard coin was in short supply and merchants and farmers often struggled to settle debts. Franklin wrote on the subject in the 1720s and 1730s, and his pamphlets were read as practical economics as much as satire. Because this wood engraving dates to 1854, more than a century after those debates, it shows how later printers and readers kept his monetary ideas in circulation.

Medium1 print : wood engraving.
Notes1854
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,095 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137167

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