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editAdventures of Franklin | |||||||
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Artist |
Halton, Thomas [calligrapher] |
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Author |
W. & T. Darton [author] |
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Title |
Adventures of Franklin |
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Description |
Writing blank of 1808 entitled Adventures of Franklin; Young Franklin accompanied by his father goes out to make a choice of trade; Bound apprentice to his brother the printer; Employed to distribute the news paper for his brother; He leaves his brother at Boston and lands in the night near Philadelphia after a dangerous voyage; He enters Philadelphia for the first time & passes by the house of Mr Reed the father of his future wife; Becomes president for the Province of Pensilvania; His experiment on electricity with a kite; Opens a shop in Philadelphia as a printer & conveys home the paper he purchases at the warehouses in a wheelbarrow; He enters a Quakers Meeting house in Philadelphia; He is sent ambassador to Paris where he signs articles of peace in conjunction with France between Gt. Britain & America; Adventures of Franklin |
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Date |
5 April 1808 date QS:P571,+1808-04-05T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Dimensions | single sheet; 465 x 365 mm; paper | ||||||
Accession number |
Educational folder 5 (21a) |
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Place of creation | London (England): W. & T. Darton | ||||||
Inscriptions | Be pleased to accept this from one whom has not presumed to trouble you before with an improvement | ||||||
Notes | Allegro identifier: 20031201/12:19:52$jl . | ||||||
Source/Photographer |
Digital Bodleian This file comes from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
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