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In 1768, John Potts, Father of 13, Grandfather of 74, dies. The house and 250 acres are inherited by his oldest son Thomas. At the time of his father's death, Thomas Potts resides in Coventryville, Pennsylvania, just a few miles south of Pottsgrove Manor. Benjamin Franklin's wife was a friend of John Potts' wife and visited on many occasions here.
Franklin, apparently, was an advocate of "air baths", which involved standing naked at this open window and allowing the London breeze to circulate. Not too sure what the neighbours opposite thought of this...
October 23, 2015
All about the benjamins. Depositing pet sitting money always feels nice. It's the only time I have cash at hand.
Benjamin Franklin was the oldest member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Ill and suffering excruciating pain, he was sometimes transported in a sedan chair by prisoners from the nearby Walnut Street jail. Sedan chairs were popular in Europe in the 18th century,
The Benjamin Franklin Museum, located beneath the surface of Franklin Court, opened to the public in 2013. The museum features interactive exhibitions, personal artifacts, computer animations and hands-on displays, examining Franklin’s life both as a private citizen and a statesman. 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.
Pottsgrove Manor was the Colonial home of John Potts; descendant of England, founder of Pottstown, entrepreneur, businessman and perhaps the greatest Iron Master in all the Colonies.
This one of four art deco reliefs illustrating the progress of printing from ancient China to America ca. 1928, the year the building was built. The reliefs are installed along the top of the Bulletin Building in Washington DC, just above the third story windows. This relief depicts Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1400-1468), the German inventor of movable type, dressed in 16th century attire with a ruff at the neck.
This building is located at located 717 6th Street, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, and is currently home to Muse Lounge
Written in 1903, The True Benjamin Franklin (442 pages) can be downloaded @ www.christianhomeschoolhub.spruz.com/holiday-and-seasonal... (Benjamin Franklin's Birthday is January 17th)
John J. Boyle, 1899, near College Hall, Levy Park, University Of Pennsylvania, University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, sculpture
Local word has it that the upward extension of number 54 was built to accommodate Benjamin Franklin on one of his visits too London. If I'm looking for historical personalities a founding father of the USA must be high on my list. I'm opening a new album as the basis for further research.
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The U.S.S. Franklin was the first vessel built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1815. In 1850, it was rebuilt into a steam frigate and Woodbury Gerrish carved this figurehead of Benjamin Franklin for it. In 1930, following the ship’s decommission, the figurehead was sent to the U.S. Naval Home in Philadelphia and later to The Franklin Institute in 1938.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened on January 1, 1934 in the expansive neoclassical building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway designed by John T. Windrem. Owing to the effects of the the Great Depression, only two the wings envisioned by Windrem, surrounding the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, were built. Today the Institute offers 12 permanent hands-on exhibits and hosts renowned traveling exhibits in its more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space, two auditoriums, and the Tuttleman IMAX Theater.
The Franklin Institute, founded as the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts in 1824 by Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Keating , is one of the oldest centers of science education and development in the United States. Named after Benjamin Franklin, America's "first scientist", it was housed in a building on 7th Street that is now home to the Philadelphia History Museum until it moved to its current home on Logan Square.
Many scientists have demonstrated groundbreaking new technology at the Institute over the years. It hosted the International Electrical Exhibition of 1884, the first great electrical exposition in the United States. Nikola Tesla demonstrated the principle of wireless telegraphy at the institute in 1893. The world's first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system was given by Philo Taylor Farnsworth on August 25, 1934.
I used this texture. :D
Last night I had to take Melatonin in order to fall asleep because I have been having difficultly sleeping lately. Anytime I take something that makes me fall asleep, I have really weird dreams. Last night I had a dream one of my friends (idk who it was) killed me with a stapler. So I decided today's 365 would be a night thing. xD
Today was okay, except for the fact that it is so dark out when I wake up in the morning. Everytime I walk to the bus stop I worry that I'm going to get shanked or some possessed demon will come out, grab my neck, rip it in half, and then leave me alone to die. YES, I think about that sort of thing. xD This morning however, Ariel decided that he would snatch a mouse right before I was about to pick him up and then refuse to drop it until I shook it from his mouth. Since it was dark out I couldn't see where the mouse went, but I hope it lived.
The rest of today was pretty good. Mariah was the first person to talk to me this morning, and the first thing she said was, "OH MY GOD! Why didn't you tell me Red's eye GLOWS?" (her alyn). I thought it was pretty funny. In Criminology today, I spent half an hour with her trying to fix the stapler she broke. I wonder if she was the friend who killed me in my dream with a stapler.
Alex is STILL under some sort of unexplained house arrest that has left me really frustrated and confused. I really want to hang out with Alex but apparently he can't come here as some sort of punishment. But after counseling on Thursday I am going over to his house. Then, on Halloween, we're going to (hopefully) go trick-or-treating with a group of our friends (mostly his, because I have no friends like that. xD). Tomorrow is a block day and I have lunch with Alex so I am pretty excited for that.
Hmm. I still have a lot of homework to do so I probably should get working on that pretty soon. At least my study hall is an hour and half long tomorrow, instead of just 45 minutes. Also, I have been starting to think about what I am going to save money for. I'd really like to get a new ipod (AGAIN) because my Mini has been giving me trouble. It only holds a charge for like 4 hours, the hold button doesn't stick, and it freezes a lot. I'm thinking about getting a classic but I am still reading reviews.
Yeahhh. That was my day. I got pretty in depth with my description today! xD
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." - Benjamin Franklin.
Very true..... Ben Franklin knew what he was talking about! =)
I went out yesterday during a horrendous torrential downpour and I forgot my rainboots at home. Even though I ran, my shoes were ultimately ruined by the gallons of water that poured into them. But by the time I got to the car, I was screaming and laughing so hard that it didn't matter that I was soaked to the skin...
It's those little moments in life that make it great. *smiles*
Have a wonderful, rainy Monday!
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Recruiting for Navy
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows the New York Tribune Building, Printing House Square, New York City.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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Call Number: LC-B2- 4168-15
Local Accession Number: 06_11_005249
Title: Statue of Franklin, School Street, Boston
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from item.; No. 19.; Recto of card embossed with: E.C. Fernald.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Public sculpture; Monuments & memorials; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Collection: Stereographs Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Boston
Rights: Rights status not evaluated
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MD, Hagerstown MD. Washington County Museum of Art.
"Benjamin Franklin" by Paul Wayland Bartlett, circa 1913.
Franklin's Experiments and Observations (1751) was one of the first books ever published about electricity. In it, Franklin coined many terms we still use today like "battery", "conductor" and "positive and negative charge." The book was a huge hit and made Ben internationally famous.
The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened on January 1, 1934 in the expansive neoclassical building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway designed by John T. Windrem. Owing to the effects of the the Great Depression, only two the wings envisioned by Windrem, surrounding the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, were built. Today the Institute offers 12 permanent hands-on exhibits and hosts renowned traveling exhibits in its more than 400,000 square feet of exhibit space, two auditoriums, and the Tuttleman IMAX Theater.
The Franklin Institute, founded as the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts in 1824 by Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Keating , is one of the oldest centers of science education and development in the United States. Named after Benjamin Franklin, America's "first scientist", it was housed in a building on 7th Street that is now home to the Philadelphia History Museum until it moved to its current home on Logan Square.
Many scientists have demonstrated groundbreaking new technology at the Institute over the years. It hosted the International Electrical Exhibition of 1884, the first great electrical exposition in the United States. Nikola Tesla demonstrated the principle of wireless telegraphy at the institute in 1893. The world's first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system was given by Philo Taylor Farnsworth on August 25, 1934.
Visitors can looks down into the actual preserved foundation of the Franklin home.
Independent National Historic Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/places-franklincour...
The fury and outrage with which Georgian and South Carolinian representatives in the First Congress, in 1790, reacted to respectful and cautiously worded antislavery petitions from Quakers and from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, signed by its president, the elderly Benjamin Franklin, called on Congress to "step to the very verge of the power vested in you" for discouraging the slave trade and "to countenance the restoration of libery to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage".
Congressman Thomas Tucker of South Carolina warned that any attempt to free Southern slaves by law would lead to civil war, and James Jackson of Georgia asserted that slavery was not only allowed by the Savior but positively commended by the Bible.
In reply, Franklin, shortly before his death, wrote a satirical letter to the Federal Gazette, putting parts of Jackson's speech in the mouth of a Muslim Algerian ruler defending the enslavement of Christians.
from Inhuman Bondage
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www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_abolitionist.html
Franklin owned two slaves, George and King, who worked as personal servants, and his newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, commonly ran notices involving the sale or purchase of slaves and contracts for indentured laborers.
Like most people of his period, Franklin initially believed that African slaves and their offspring were inferior to white Europeans and that they couldn't be educated. He began to question his beliefs when he visited a school where young African children were being taught. In 1763, he wrote a letter to an English friend where he stated, "I was on the whole much pleased, and from what I then saw, have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race, than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children."
After Franklin returned from France in 1785, he joined and eventually became president of an abolitionist group founded a decade earlier by the Pennsylvania Quakers. The group was called the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. Franklin was convinced that not only the slave trade, but slavery itself should be eliminated. He eventually freed his own two slaves.
Franklin recognized that freed slaves could not fend for themselves without help, so he advanced the idea that slaves needed to be educated in order to become contributing members of a free society. In his position of president of the abolitionist society, Franklin wrote and published an "Address to the Public," in which he addressed the education of former slaves. The plan was to "instruct, to advise, to qualify those who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty; to promote in them habits of industry, to furnish them with employment suited to their age, sex, talents, and other circumstances. . . which we conceive will essentially promote the public good, and the happiness of these hitherto much neglected fellow-creatures."
www.everydaycitizen.com/2010/06/benjamin_franklin_and_his...
37th Street in University City, Philadelphia. Sculpted by George Lundeen and erected in 1987. It was gift of the class of 1962 to the University of Pennsylvania.
Overview of Old Granary Burying Ground: The Old Granary is Boston’s third oldest cemetery established in 1660. It is a stop along the Boston Freedom Trail and the most frequented of all city graveyards due to the number of famous individuals buried here.
How to find this grave: Enter the grave yard via the Tremont Street entrance. Follow the path you enter on in a straight trajectory and look for a large obelisk in the center of the graveyard.
Who were Josiah and Abiah Franklin? The 20 foot granite obelisk in the center of the Old Granary belongs in tribute to the parents of Benjamin Franklin, Josiah and Abiah Franklin. It was actually erected in 1827 as a replacement to the original tributary marker purchased by Benjamin. Josiah and Abiah raised thirteen children including Benjamin who was born here in Boston on Milk Street. Benjamin spent the first seventeen years of his life here before eventually moving to Philadelphia in 1723 after he got into a serious argument with his brother James.
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/2011/07/iwalked-boston%E2%80%99s-ol...
The original "JOIN, or DIE" cartoon was created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. It is often sited as the first America political cartoon.
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This version would be excellent as a raw image for a silkscreen or poster. Your are welcome to use this or any of these JOIN, or DIE images for your own purposes.