Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art and the slow procession of

and the slow procession of wealth that once defined uptown Manhattan

her hull already a relic by the time this 1896 study was struck

a chromolithograph already rehearsing the republic's centennial pageant — a hundred years measured in rails

arranging the first ten executives in lithographed council

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

Benjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 framed tobacco art and the slow procession ofBenjamin Franklin Printer Philadelphia 1914 a commemorative likeness honoring Franklin not as statesman or sage but as the ink stained tradesman who set type along Market Street, issued in the bicentennial mood of a republic about to discover what world war required of its founders' inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical