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[Title page - no illus.] – Antique Wall Art

[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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Step back in time with [Title page - no illus.], a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rather than an illustration, this is the title page of a book, and that sets it apart from the portraits of Franklin elsewhere on the board. It introduces *Experiments and Observations on Electricity*, published in London by E. Cave in 1751. The volume gathered letters Franklin had written from Philadelphia to his English correspondent Peter Collinson, who shared them with the Royal Society. In print, Franklin's ideas about electrical charge, including his terms "positive" and "negative," reached scientists across Europe. The record gives no date beyond the 1751 imprint.

Medium1 print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsIllus. in: Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity, London, E. Cave, 1751. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Electricity; RBD; BI--WORKS; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,083 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133896

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