Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the broad symmetry of Temple

the broad symmetry of Temple Square

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

the roster posed in heavy flannels and laced collars

frozen on cheap cardstock and given away with a winter coat

captured in the bright linen postcards of the open-road era

Benjamin Franklin 1779 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the broad symmetry of TempleBenjamin Franklin 1779 the printer philosopher rendered mid mission in Paris, charming a court whose alliance would decide the war. An engraving from the years when Franklin was less a man than a diplomatic instrument, his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,