Benjamin Franklin's press in his printing house, now a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where one of the most esteemed of America's "founding fathers" published The Gazette, the most successful newspaper in Britain's American colonies and gained fame as a puckish write in his Poor Richard's Almanack. However, the most profitable business was becoming the official printer of Pennsylvania in 1730 and of New Jersey in 1740

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Benjamin Franklin's press in his printing house, now a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where one of the most esteemed of America's "founding fathers" published The Gazette, the most successful newspaper in Britain's American colonies and gained fame as a puckish write in his Poor Richard's Almanack. However, the most profitable business was becoming the official printer of Pennsylvania in 1730 and of New Jersey in 1740

Digital ID: (original digital file) highsm 56717 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.56717
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-56717 (original digital file)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

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Benjamin Franklin's press in his printing house, now a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where one of the most esteemed of America's "founding fathers" published The Gazette, the most successful newspaper in Britain's American colonies and gained fame as a puckish write in his Poor Richard's Almanack. However, the most profitable business was becoming the official printer of Pennsylvania in 1730 and of New Jersey in 1740

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