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[Title page - no illus.] – Historic Reproduction

[Title page - no illus.] — historic print
[Title page - no illus.]. Historic print from the Books & Writers 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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A window into the past: [Title page - no illus.], preserved in this historic print. 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 page of *Poor Richard* for 1743 is a printed announcement rather than a picture, giving the almanac's year and its Philadelphia imprint under Benjamin Franklin's name. Franklin issued the almanac annually from 1732 under the pen name Richard Saunders, and its calendars, astronomical tables and weather notes were later joined by the proverbs that made the series famous. Almanacs like this were among the most widely owned printed works in the colonies, often kept in a household for a full year. Its interest lies mainly in the plain typography and in what it shows of Franklin's printing house at work.

Medium1 print.
Notes1743
SubjectsIllus. in: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1743, Phila., B. Franklin, 1743. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Almanacs; RBD; BI--WORKS; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan878 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133868

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