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Benjamin Franklin

American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790)
English: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Deutsch: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) war ein nordamerikanischer Politiker, Schriftsteller und Verleger, Naturwissenschaftler, Erfinder, Naturphilosoph und Freimaurer.
Gaeilge: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), ceann de na Bhunaitheoirí na Stáit Aontaithe Mheirceá.
Italiano: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) scienziato e uomo politico statunitense
Polski: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), uczony, filozof i polityk amerykański.
Português: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Jornalista, político, cientista e inventor estadunidense.
Русский: Бенджамин Франклин (1706–1790)—учёный, журналист, издатель, дипломат, политический деятель, масон.

Genealogy

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Portraits

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    First portrait by Robert Feke (1748)
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    Painting by Benjamin Wilson (c. 1760)
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    Painting by Mason Chamberlin (1762)
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    Painting by David Martin (1767)
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    Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1777)
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    Painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1778)
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    Portrait of Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (ca. 1785)
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    Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale (1785)
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    Franklin in his fur cap
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    Benjamin Franklin in USCapitol by Constantino Brumidi (c. 1873)

On group pictures

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    Treaty of Paris, unfinished painting by Benjamin West (1783)
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    The five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. Painting by John Trumbull (commissioned 1817)
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    Franklin and the ladies of Paris
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    New England Courant, third Silence Dogood essay (detail)
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    Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1754
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    Poor Richard’s Almanack (1739)
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    Plain Truth (1747)
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    The Colonies Reduced, Cartoon which Franklin had made at the time of the Stamp Act
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    Draft of Franklin's Autobiography
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    Declaration of Independence, draft with changes by Benjamin Franklin (detail)
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    Declaration of Independence (1776) with Franklin's signature
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    An Address to the Public (1789)
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    Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789)
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    Franklin's Autograph (from Nordisk familjebok)
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    Cover of the first English edition of 1793
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    Title page of the original edition of the autobiography in French.
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    Franklin's Journal de Paris
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    A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings
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    New-England Courant first issue (1721)

Franklin as a scientist and inventor

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    Franklin's Pennsylvania Fireplace (1744)
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    Franklin's Leyden jar experiment (1754)
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    Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, history painting by Benjamin West (ca. 1816)
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    Franklin's kite experiment. 19th century engraving by Le Roy C. Cooley.
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    Franklin's sentry-box experiment. Drawing reproduced from the "Bowdoin MS", which consists of a manuscript copy of all of Franklin's earliest papers on electricity.
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    Glassharmonica
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    Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica in an Italian publication
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    Franklin's blueprint for Franklin Stove
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    Franklin stove

Sculptures and plaques

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    Marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1778)
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    Medaillon by Giovanni Battista Nini (1779)
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    Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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    Keys To Community (2007), a 9-foot bronze bust by James Peniston in Philadelphia
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    Sculpture by John J. Boyle at the University of Pennsylvania
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    Statue created by sculptor Herman Powers standing in the atrium of Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
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    Plaque commemorating Benjamin Franklin and Electricity on Saint Stephen's Church, Philadelphia
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    Frankin's plaque in France
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    Plaque in Kongresshalle in Berlin-Tiergarten
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    Pennsylvania Gazette
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    Franklin bust in the Archives Department of Columbia University in New York City
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On Currency and Stamps

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    Dollar Coin in 2006
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    Dollar coin in 2006
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    Half Dollar in 1949
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    100 Dollar bill
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    US 5c stamp of 1847
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    US 1c stamped envelope overprinted for Cuba, 1899
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    Benjamin Franklin

Depictions

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    Benjamin Franklin (center) at work on a printing press. Reproduction of a Charles Mills painting by the Detroit Publishing Company.
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