On How to Fit Benjamin Franklin into Eight Thousand Square Feet
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tor of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin and J. Leo LeMay author of a. sevenvolume biography of Franklin (the first two volumes were pub ...
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On How to Fit Benjamin Franklin into Eight Thousand Square FeetPage 1 643 ]PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETYVOL. 150 NO. 4 DECEMBER 2006On How to Fit Benjamin Franklin into Eight Thousand Square Feet1PAGE TALBOTTChief Curator Benjamin Franklin in Search of a Better WorldAssociate Director Benjamin Franklin TercentenaryE IN THE HEART of American prerevolutionary historyare somewhat jaded I fear. In this year (and this city) of allBen all the time we forget that not everywhere in the UnitedStates are people saturated with early American history. Folks in the citieswhere Ben will travel are thrilled to know that they will be seeing firsthand original versions of all five founding documents that Franklinsignedthe Albany Plan (1754) the Declaration of Independence (1776)the Treaty of Amity (1778) the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the U.S. Constitution (1787)Franklins own scientific instruments and householdfurnishings and portraits of him his family and his friends.And how did we come to have this marvelous assemblage of artifacts? By luck (the watercolor portrait of Polly Stevenson the daughterof Franklins English landlady) by doggedness (Franklins first life portrait) and by the generosity of seventysix lenders from sixteen statesand four countries. Our partners in Philadelphia including the five consortium membersthe American Philosophical Society The FranklinInstitute the Library Company of Philadelphia the Philadelphia Museumof Art and the University of Pennsylvaniaand other local institutionsincluding the Atwater Kent Museum the Historical Society of Pennsylvania the Rosenbach Museum and Library were exceptionally generous in terms of loans staff time and scholarship. Individual lendersincluding six Franklin descendants agreed to part with their Franklintreasures for two and a half years.In return thanks to a generous grant from the Save Americas Treasures program matched by the Pew Charitable Trusts we were able tooffer to these lenders the opportuni ...
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