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[Title page - no illus.] – Vintage Print

[Title page - no illus.] — historic print
[Title page - no illus.]. Historic print 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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A window into the past: [Title page - no illus.], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than a portrait of Franklin, this is the title page of *Poor Richard*, the almanac he published in Philadelphia from 1732 under the pen name Richard Saunders. The record dates the page to 1793 and lists a later imprint from C. Marshall in 1849, though those details come from an old caption card and have not been fully verified. Franklin died in 1790, and the almanac stayed in print long after him. Its mix of weather notes, calendar listings and proverbs made it one of the most widely read books in colonial and early American life.

Medium1 print.
Notes1849
SubjectsIllus. in: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1793, Phila., B. Franklin [n.d.] [Phila. C. Marshall, 1849], title page. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI--WORKS; Almanacs; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan843 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133869

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