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Benjamin Franklin went to and from his house through this original passage.
Franklin Court cuts through an entire city block on the former site of Benjamin Franklin's home at 316-322 Market Street. Although razed in 1812, a "Ghost House" frame, built by Robert Venturi in 1976 for the Bicentennial, depicts the exact positions of the original 3-story house, 33 square-foot, ten-room house and adjacent print shop, while excavations underneath reveal the original foundations, privy pits, and wells. Six museums on the site, also built in 1976 for the Bicentennial, trace Franklin's life as a publisher, politician, postmaster, printer and inventor.
Below the court is an underground museum filled with paintings, objects, and inventions associated with Benjamin Franklin. The United States Postal Service Museum, at 314 Market Street, features exhibits that include Pony Express pouches and originals of Franklin's Pennyslvania Gazette. The B. Free Franklin Post Office, at 316 Market Street, is the the only active post office in the United States that does not fly a United States flag--because there wasn't yet one in 1775. At 318 Market Street is an architectural exhibit about Franklin's interest in fire-resistant buildings with fully exposed walls, revealing wooden joists separated by masonry and plaster. At 320 Market Street is the Printing Office and Bindery, with demonstrations of 18th century printing and binding equipment on display. At 322 Market Street is the General Advertiser, a the restored office of The Aurora and general Advertiser, the newspaper published by Franklin's grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache. 322 Market Street also claims two famous connections--James Wilson, an editor of The Aurora, and grandfather to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, who lived there; and Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book and author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," who worked there from 1837-1877.
Erasmus Darwin House on the corner of Beacon Street and The Close in Lichfield, Staffordshire is the former home of the English poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin. The house is a Grade I listed building, and is now a museum commemorating Darwin's life.
Erasmus Darwin, was a renowned physician, scientist, inventor, poet, and educationalist lived on Beacon Street from 1758 until 1781. A founding member of the Lunar Society, it was here that he received many famous 18th-century personalities, including Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, Benjamin Franklin and James Watt.
Darwin purchased a medieval half-timbered building on the west side of the lower courtyard of the Vicars Choral in 1758. From 1758-1759 Darwin converted the building into a large Georgian town house of red brick with stucco dressings and Venetian windows. At this time the front of the house was separated from Beacon Street by a narrow deep ditch which once formed the moat of the Cathedral Close. Darwin built a bridge across the ditch descending from his hall door to the street. The ditch was overgrown with tangled bushes, which Darwin cleared and made a terrace on the bank. He planted the ditch with lilacs and rose bushes which screened his terrace from passers by. After Darwin left in 1781 the next owner filled in the ditch to make a driveway from the street to his doorway.
Not long after the Darwins moved into the fashionable new front of their house, a wooden bridge was thrown across the ditch and a twin-tier terrace was built, causing alterations to be made to the basement windows. Anna Seward recollected that the bridge and terrace both had Chinese pailings.
For 20 years this house was the base for Darwin's medical practice, for his scientific experiments, meetings of the Lunar Society, and such inventive schemes as the construction of the Trent and Mersey Canal. Amid all this, the house was also the centre of family life.
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
Monticello was built by Thomas Jefferson between 1769 and 1809. Rejecting the British Georgian architecture that characterized his time, he instead chose to design the main house using neoclassical principles in the 16th-century Italian style of Andrea Palladi for this three-story, 33-room home with nearly 11,000 square feet of living space.
The parlor was the center of social life at Monticello. Family and friends would gather here for games, music, and conversation and was the site of weddings, dances and other important events. It held most of Jefferson's art collection, including portraits of many people whom he admired or considered noteworthy.
On the left, Jefferson acquired this portrait of Benjamin Franklin—a copy by Jean Valade of Joseph-Silfrede Duplessis’s work—in September 1786, the year after he succeeded him as minister plenipotentiary to the court of Louis XVI. He called his succession to Franklin “an excellent school of humility.” Whenever one asked him if it was he who replaced Doctor Franklin, Jefferson generally replied, “no one can replace him...I am only his successor.”
On the right is the religious painting of Salome holding the head of St. John the Baptist, Herodias Bearing the Head of Saint John.
Situated on the summit of an 850-foot high park in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna gap, Monticello, whose name derives from Italian meaning "little mountain", was originally a 5,000 acre plantation cultivated tobacco and mixed crops using the labor of enslaved African people. After Jefferson's death, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph sold the property to Uriah P. Levy who preserved the property and left it to his nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy, who eventually sold it in 1923 to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which operates it as a house museum and educational institution.
National Register #66000826 (1966)
VLR #002-0050
UNESCO World Heritage Site #442
AIA150 #27
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
This bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin was erected in 1856 and was the first portrait statue in Boston. Located on School Street, this site was the location of the Boston Latin School. Started in 1635, the school was the first public school in the United States. Ben Franklin attended the school, as did other notable figures, such as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Cotton Mather.
The building in the background is Boston’s Old City Hall. Built in 1865, it served as City Hall until 1969. It has since been converted into an office building.
Hidden within the City of Westminster, nearby Trafalgar Square is 36 Craven Street. Former home to Benjamin Franklin (on of the American Founding Fathers) - who lived here from 1757 - 1775.
It is a Grade I listed building. It dates from 1730. Opened as a museum in 2006. I enjoyed my visit here.
It has a Historical Experience, where you watch videos on walls, with a woman dressed as Polly Hewson, daughter of Franklin's landlady who becomes a "second daughter" to Franklin.
By Ignacio Garcia
North wall of Frey Financial at 2329 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ.
Look closely. There are many subtle details.
"If you wou'd not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading,
Or do things worth the writing."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
Image: Ernest Hemingway writing at a desk while on safari in Africa,1953. (Photo courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Library.) [He is a prime example of a person who both wrote things worth reading and did things worth writing about.]
America's oldest operating theater, in America's first hospital: Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond in 1751.
She's attractively seductive, dresses very sexually...makes you want to do something that you would not otherwise do.
The American Tract Society Building (Robert Henderson Robertson, 1894-1895), a statue of Ben Franklin, and the old New York Times Building (George B. Post, 1888-1889).
I say a little more about the building and Newspaper Row in general on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door.
National Register Number
Fulton-Nassau Historic District: 05000988
1 grafiskt blad, kopparstick
Kopparstick föreställande Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), politiker, diplomat och uppfinnare.
Konstnär: I. C. G. Fritzsch
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
Erected in 1856, this 8-foot tall bronze likeness of Benjamin Franklin by Richard S. Greenough is boston's first public portrait statue. Located in front of Boston's Old City Hall, an ornate 1862 French Second Empire style structure (appropriately so since Franklin was this country's first ambassador to France), and in front of City Carpet, a hopscotch-like mosaic that marks the original site of Boston Latin School, which Franklin attended before dropping out.
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
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The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
The Pennsylvania Hospital is located in Philadelphia, Pa and was the first hospital in the United States.
In 1751, Dr Thomas Bond along with Benjamin Franklin, decided to create medical history. The wanted a place where people can practice and learn medical procedures at the same time. At the time, all medical procedures were done at little physician offices or at the patients home. Along with the medical knowledge of Thomas Bond and the finances, business mind, and inventive mind of Benjamin Franklin, they came up with the Pennsylvania Hospital.
The hospital was to be filled with physicians and medical students allowing them to see many patients at once. It also served as a learning hospital for local medical students. The were a few more famous men who taught at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Thomas Bond taught and performed surgeries along with local physician Philip Physick. Also, mostly as a teacher, was Dr Benjamin Rush who was one of the more well known physicians in the country, and like Franklin, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The Pennsylvania Hospital was also known as a war hospital. It housed and cared to soldiers during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. During WWI and WWII, many Physicians were sent from the hospital, along with supplies, to many places all over the world to take care of soldiers.
Since the Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in America, making it the oldest hospital, it has accomplished many first in American medicine.......
.......it was the first hospital in America to have a library. The first book donated to the hospital came in 1767 from a friend of Benjamin Franklin. Since then, the collection has grown to over 13,000 volumes. They have medical books dating all the way back to the 15th century.
....... it was the first hospital to add a surgical viewing room. When the hospital was created, its main purpose was to teach. So a viewing room was added with enough seating for 150 people, 300 if they stand. At the top of the picture, there is a dome roof. Under that dome is that surgical room. It was built on the top floor because during that time period, electricity had not yet been discovered. They would only do surgery on sunny days between 11 am and 2 pm, which happened to be when the sun would be at its highest providing more light.
.......it was also the first hospital to have a maternity ward. During the time, almost all woman had their babies while at home. This offered woman the chance to rest while pregnant and have round the clock supervision from doctors.
Today, Pennsylvania Hospital is still an active hospital in Philadelphia. It is considered part of the University of Pennsylvania and is still used as a research and learning hospital for the University of Penn medical students. On Oct 15, 1966, the Pennsylvania Hospital was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
Hidden within the City of Westminster, nearby Trafalgar Square is 36 Craven Street. Former home to Benjamin Franklin (on of the American Founding Fathers) - who lived here from 1757 - 1775.
It is a Grade I listed building. It dates from 1730. Opened as a museum in 2006. I enjoyed my visit here.
It has a Historical Experience, where you watch videos on walls, with a woman dressed as Polly Hewson, daughter of Franklin's landlady who becomes a "second daughter" to Franklin.
Straight out of the camera Corel Paint Shop would not let me do any editing on this picture, I wanted to down size it and it gave me a warning flag, kind of alarmed me...
Hidden within the City of Westminster, nearby Trafalgar Square is 36 Craven Street. Former home to Benjamin Franklin (on of the American Founding Fathers) - who lived here from 1757 - 1775.
It is a Grade I listed building. It dates from 1730. Opened as a museum in 2006. I enjoyed my visit here.
It has a Historical Experience, where you watch videos on walls, with a woman dressed as Polly Hewson, daughter of Franklin's landlady who becomes a "second daughter" to Franklin.
Firmin Didot (né le 14 avril 1764 à Paris ; † 24 avril 1836 à Mesnil-sur-l'Estrée) est le membre le plus célèbre d'une dynastie d’imprimeurs, éditeurs et typographes français, la famille Didot, qui commence au début du xviiie siècle et se poursuit de nos jours.
Il est le deuxième fils de François-Ambroise Didot. Il travailla, de concert avec son frère Pierre Didot, à perfectionner son art, se distingua surtout comme graveur et fondeur, et fit, le premier, des éditions stéréotypes en 1797.
Parmi les éditions des deux frères, on distingue : le Camoêns, en portugais, 1817; la Henriade, 1819, in-4, et les Tables de logarithmes de Callet, dont la correction est devenue irréprochable.
Firmin Didot cultivait les lettres : on lui doit de bonnes traductions en vers des Bucoliques de Virgile, 1806, des Idylles de Théocrite, 1833, et une tragédie d'Annibal. Elu député en 1827, il défendit les intérêts de la librairie et de la presse. Il était en faveur d'une réforme substantielle de l'orthographe et exposa ses idées à ce sujet dans son essai Observation sur l'orthographe française ou ortografie française.
Le nom d'une des deux unités typographiques (ou point typographique), porte son nom, le point Didot. (Wikipedia)
The Benjamin Franklin Monument, located along the Camp Street side of Lafayette Square, was given to the city of New Orleans by Henry Wadsworth Gustine of Chicago in 1926. The full length standing portrait of Franklin rests atop a base inscribed with Franklin's famous saying, "Save While You are Young/To Spend While You are Old/One Penny Saved Is Better/Than Two Pennies Earned."
Lafayette Square, bound by St. Charles Avenue, Camp Street and Maestri Street, was founded in 1788 for the City's first suburb, Faubourg Ste. Marie, making it the second oldest park in New Orleans. Originally called "place publique", the square was renamed after Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat and general who fought on the American side in the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette declined the invitation to become the first Governor when the United purchased Lousiana, but his popularity was evident when he visited New Orleans from April 9-15, 1825 to cheers of "Vive Lafayette!"
In the early 20th Century, three bronze statues were placed along the East/West axis of the square. In addition to the statue of Franklin, a statues of Henry Clay was relocated to the center of the square and a statue of John McDonogh was placed on St. Charles Street. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused extensive damage to many of the trees, and broken glass and debris scattered from nearby buildings made Lafayette Square unsafe. A group of neighborhood residents and downtown workers formed the non-profit Lafayette Square Conservancy (LSC), to renovate, improve and preserve the space.
We tried to spin a cucumber with a drill and grind the cucumber with our teeth. We failed to realize cucumbers are almost entirely water and couldn't get the drill bit to grasp it.
Independence Hall was built in 1753 as the old state house. It is recognized as one of the most important structures in the political history of the United States. It was here that both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were adopted. It was the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress (the First Congress was held at Capenters' Hall), as well as the site of the Constitutional Convention (1787). This structure is so historically and culturally important that it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The Liberty Bell was located in the original steeple, but is now housed across the street at Liberty Bell Center.
*The building to the right is Congress Hall
Independence Hall. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin
1852
Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886)
Bronze
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2004 (2004.44)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.
In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.
National Historic Register #86003556
The new 100 dollar bill has recently come out. If you have not seen one yet you will probably be shocked by how "fake" it seems. The paper itself has a different feel to it. The new bill has a bunch of built in anti-counterfeiting measures such as the blue ribbon down the center, a watermark (on the right) and a couple of holograms. The former 100 dollar note was the most counterfeited bill in the world. North Koreans had mastered faking the bills. Those counterfeits are known as "supermotes" and are extremely tough to detect.
Erected in 1856, this 8-foot tall bronze likeness of Benjamin Franklin by Richard Saltonstall Greenough is Boston's first public portrait statue. It is located in the courtyard of Boston's Old City Hall, an ornate 1862 French Second Empire style structure (appropriately so since Franklin was this country's first ambassador to France), and in front of City Carpet, a hopscotch-like mosaic that marks the original site of Boston Latin School, which Franklin attended before dropping out. Franklin is depicted in plain dress, and atop a base adorned with bas-reliefs of Franklin's accomplishments.
National Historic Register #70000687
In the 18th Century, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was a well know printer. Working out of this shop in the 1700's, Franklin would print anything from documents to books. It was Franklin who wrote and printed Poor Richards Almanac. One of Franklin's biggest inventions was the printing press. This made it much easier and quicker to print papers at a rate of 10 times quicker.
On the left side of the building is the oldest post office in America. It was started by Benjamin Franklin in the late 1700's. Franklin was the first United States Postmaster. It is the only post office in America that does not fly an American flag. That is because in 1775, when it is believed Franklin started this post office, there was no flag yet made for America.
The Benjamin Franklin Post Office and Printing Press is located on Franklin Court in Philadelphia, Pa. It is next to site of where Benjamin Franklin's house sat and is part of the Independence National Historic Park.
Identified
EVIDENCE
Provenance evidence: Inscription, Sale Record
Location in book: Front Free Endpaper
Transcription: Charles Norris bot of B: Franklin 1746 for 10s
Associated name(s): Charles Norris; Benjamin Franklin
Associated date(s): 1746
IDENTIFICATION
Identified: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), seller
Identified: Norris, Charles (1712-1766), buyer
COPY
Repository: Penn Libraries
Call number: EC7 Ec423 692g 1744
Copy title: The gazetteer's, or, newsman's interpreter : Being a geographical index of all the considerable provinces, cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Dukedoms, Earldoms, and such like; Imperial and Hanse-Towns, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe. Shewing, In what Kingdoms, Provinces, and Counties they are; to what Prince they are now subject, upon, or nigh what Rivers, Bays, Seas, Mountains, &c. they stand; their Distances (in English Miles) from several other Places of Note; with their Longitude and Latitude, according to the best and approv'd Maps: With the Addition of a Table of the Births, Marriages, &c. of all the Kings, Princes, and Potentates of Europe. Of special Use for the true Understanding of all Modern Histories of Europe, as well as the present Affairs; and, for the Conveniency of Cheapness and Pocket Carriage, Explained by Abbreviations and Figures. The sixteenth edition, corrected, and very much enlarged, with the addition of all the several provinces and counties of Europe and all the towns of Great-Britain, which send members to Parliament; and of the Towns and other Places that give Titles to the Nobility; with the Counties they lie in, and their Distances from London.
Author(s): Echard, Laurence
Published: England, London, 1744
Printer/Publisher: Printed for S. Ballard, R. Ware, J. and J. Rivington, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman, R Hett, C. Hitch, S. Austen, J. and H. Pemberton. and J. Davidson
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Me and Danielle with Marie of the Aristocats in the French Pavillion at Walt Disney World's EPCOT. May 21st 2010
America's oldest operating theater, in America's first hospital: Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond in 1751.
The Congregational Library and Archives are administered here. What is that you say? It is a library of religious and New England history that includes a ledger detailing Benjamin Franklin’s baptism. The library is a not for profit organization that originated in 1853 “”for the purpose of establishing and perpetuating a library of religious history and literature of New England, and for the erection of a suitable building for the accommodation of the same, and for the use of charitable societies.” It began with an initial donation of 56 books and has since expanded to some 225,000 volumes.
This building in which the library is situated dates back to 1898 and contains four bas-relief sculptures on its front façade by Spanish artist Domingo Mora that depict significant events in Boston history. If you inspect the four bas-reliefs from left to right, the events are:
-John Eliot (“The Indian Apostle”), a Puritan missionary, preaching to Indians
-The founding of Harvard College
A celebration of the 1st Sabbath on Clark’s Island. This is where the Pilgrims actually landed before Plymouth Rock.
-The signing of the Mayflower Compact. This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
The building is more popularly known as the former offices of Ally McBeal, the FOX television series which ran from 1997 to 2002. The 7th floor offices of Cage & Fish have maintained a legal presence in that they now house the National Lesbian & Gay Law Association.
For more history regarding this site, including how you can visit this locale via one of our MP3 audio walking tours, check out our site here: iwalkedaudiotours.com/2011/04/iwalked-boston%E2%80%99s-al...