Franklin the printer – Historic Print
(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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Franklin the printer comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Franklin appears here at work among the hand presses of an early print shop, the trade that gave him his start. The picture reproduces a painting by Charles E. Mills, and the Detroit Publishing Co. issued it as a photographic print around 1914, when such reproductions were widely sold to schools and homes. In the 1720s, the period the scene evokes, Franklin was a young printer in Philadelphia who would later run the *Pennsylvania Gazette* and publish *Poor Richard's Almanack*, so the image captures the beginning of a career that carried him well beyond the print shop.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Paintings Reproductions 1910-1920.Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J198444 or J198445 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills. |
| Subjects | Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790. Printing presses--1720-1730. Printing--1720-1730. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 916 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125712 |
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