Sections: Introduction - A Cause For Revolution - Break With Britain - Continental Congress
Treaty of Paris - The New Republic - Scientist and Inventor - Printer and Writer - Epitaph
Checklist of Objects
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Join, or Die"
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Woodcut from the Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, May 9, 1754
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Serial & Government Publications
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MAGNA Britannia, her Colonies REDUC'd.
[Philadelphia, ca.1766]
Photostat copy
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Rare Book & Special Collections
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No Stamped Paper To Be Had.
[Philadelphia: Printed by Hall & Franklin, November 7, 1765]
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An Act for granting and applying certain
Stamp Duties. . .
London: Mark Baskett, Printer to the King, 1765
Printed pamphlet
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Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, September
27, 1766
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Manuscript letter
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Benjamin Franklin to Mary Stevenson (1739-1795),
September 14, 1767
Manuscript letter
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[Matthew Wheelock].
Reflections Moral and Political on
Great Britain and Her Colonies.
London: Printed for T. Becket and Co. 1770, bound with
[Allan Ramsay].
Thoughts on the Origin and Nature of Government.
London: 1769
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Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan (1715-1785),
July 5, 1775
Manuscript letter
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Artist unknown
The Plan,
or a Scene in the French Cabinet.
[London: September 1779]
Etching
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LC-DIG-ppmsca-10081
Benjamin Franklin to Lord Richard Howe
(1726-1799), July 20, 1776
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Manuscript letter
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"Tract Relative to the Affair of Hutchinson's
Letters written by Dr. Franklin." [1774]
Manuscript document
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Robert Whitechurch (1814-ca. 1880), engraver
Franklin before the Lord's Council, Whitehall
Chapel, London, 1774
Hand-colored engraving, 1859
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LC-DIG-pga-03390
Declaration of the Cessation of Arms and
Treaty of Paris (in French), 1783
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Manuscript copy book
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Anton Hohenstein (ca. 1823-?)
Franklin's Reception at the Court of
France, 1778.
Philadelphia: John Smith, n.d.
Hand-colored lithograph
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Louis-Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld d'Enville, translator
Constitutions des Treize Etats-Unis
de L'Amerique.
Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1783
Rare Book & Special Collections
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Robert Sayer and John Bennett
The
United States of America with the British Possessions of Canada,
Nova Scotia, & of Newfoundland, divided with the French; and
the Spanish Territories of Louisiana and Florida According to the
Preliminary Articles of Peace Signed at Versailles,
[Jan. 20, 1783].
London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1783
Hand-colored engraved map
Geography & Map Division (21)
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Thomas Colley, engraver
A Political Concert; the vocal parts
by 1. Miss America, 2. Franklin, 3. F-x, 4. Kepp-ll, 5. Mrs. Britannia,
6. Shelb-n, 7. Dun-i-g, 8. Benidick Rattle Snake.
London: W. Richardson, February 18, 1783
Engraving
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LC-DIG-ppmsca-10082
A
plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia, survey'd by N. Scull
and G. Heap.
London: Will Faden, 1777
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division (16A)
[gmd382/g3824/g3824p/ct000185]
In Congress, July 19, 1776. Resolved,
That it be earnestly recommended to the Convention of Pennsylvania,
to hasten, with all possible Expedition, the March of the Associators
into New-Jersey,
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[Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776]
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Petition of the Continental Congress to King George III, October 26, 1774
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Manuscript document in the hand of Timothy Matlack
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Charles Thomson (1729-1824) to Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790), November 1, 1774
Manuscript letter
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Benjamin Franklin
Plan for a Confederation, July
21, 1775
Annotated document
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) to Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), October 14, 1787
Manuscript letter
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Bill of Sale, August 1787, signed by Benjamin
Franklin
Manuscript document with seal
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Benjamin Franklin to George Washington,
September 16, 1789
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Manuscript letter
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Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Benezet (1713-1784),
August 22, 1772
Manuscript letter
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An Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania
Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free
Negroes. . . .
Philadelphia, 1789
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) to Sarah Bache
(1743-1808), January 26, 1784
Manuscript letter
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Benjamin Franklin
Draft speech, [June 11, 1787]
Manuscript document
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Suppositions and Conjectures on
the Aurora Borealis," [ca. December 1778]
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Manuscript essay
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Benjamin Franklin
"Hints concerning what is called
Catching a Cold," [1773]
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Manuscript document
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Benjamin Franklin.
Experiments and Observations on Electricity,
made at Philadelphia in America, By Benjamin Franklin.
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London, Printed for David Henry, 1769
Rare Book & Special Collections
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Benjamin Franklin to Jan Ingenhousz, 1777
Manuscript essay
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Benjamin Franklin
"Queries from Dr. Ingenhousz, with
my Answers, B.F."
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Holograph report with annotations, [1777]
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Benjamin Franklin
"Maritime
Observations and A Chart of the Gulph Stream"
in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia:
1796
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division (40A)
[gmd9/g9112/g9112g/ct000136]
Benjamin Franklin to George Whatley (ca.
1709-1791), May 23, 1785
Letterpress manuscript
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Benjamin Franklin
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian
Fire-Places.
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Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1744
Rare Book & Special Collections
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L'Armonica: Lettera del Signor Beniamino
Franklin al Padre Giambatista Beccaria, Regio Professore di Fisica
nell' Univ. di Torino.
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[Milano?:1776?]
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Franklin and Hall [shillings]; Hall and Sellers [dollars]
Paper currency, various amounts and dates
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- 50a - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill - 50b - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill - 50c - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill - 50d - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill - 50e - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill - 50f - Front of Bill
Reverse of Bill
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or, his Discourse
of Old-Age.
Translated by James Logan.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1744
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The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every
Man's Pocket by Doctor Franklin.
New York: P. Maverick, 1817
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[Benjamin Franklin].
Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack for the
Year of Christ 1739.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1738
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Richard Saunders [Benjamin Franklin].
The Way to Wealth, and a Plan by which
Every Man may pay his Taxes.
Philadelphia: Printed by Daniel Humphreys, 1785
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity,
Pleasure and Pain.
London, 1725
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[Benjamin Franklin].
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge
among the British Plantations in America.
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Philadelphia, 1743
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion," November
20, 1728
Manuscript document
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The General Magazine, and Historical
Chronicle, for all the British Plantations in America.
Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, January 1741
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Ephrata Community
Die bittre Gute, oder Das Gesäng
der einsamen Turtel-Taube . . .
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Manuscript hymnal, 1746
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[Conrad Beissel].
Vorspiel der Neuen-Welt.
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Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, 1732
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[Benjamin Franklin]
The Private Life of the Late Benjamin
Franklin, LL.D. Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States
of America to France, &c.
London, Printed for J. Parsons, 1793
Rare Book & Special Collections
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Benjamin Franklin
"Observations Relative to the Intentions
of the Original Founders of the Academy in Philadelphia," June,
1789
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Manuscript essay
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Epitaph, 1738
Manuscript verse
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Benjamin Franklin to Deborah Franklin (1705?-1774),
January 6, 1773
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Manuscript letter
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) to William
Smith (1727-1803), February 19, 1791
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Manuscript letter
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James Madison's (1751-1836) notes on Benjamin
Franklin
Manuscript document, post 1817
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William Maclay's diary April 23, 1790
Manuscript diary
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Report of the Committee "to whom was
referrd the consideration of the Legacy left by Doct. B. Franklin to
the Corporation," June 18, 1790
Manuscript document
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Juste Chevillet (1729-1802) [after a painting by Joseph Duplessis (1725-1802)]
Benjamin Franklin. Né à Boston,
dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Janv. 1706
Engraving, 1778
Prints & Photographs
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Edward Fisher (1730-ca. 1785), after Mason Chamberlin (d. 1787)
Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia,
1763
Mezzotint
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LC-DIG-ppmsca-10083
