Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See also RU 95 Box 53, Folder 9 Negative Number 9160 for similar photograph.
- Summary
- The Franklin Printing Press, an English common press, from the Historic Relics Collection. In 1768, Benjamin Franklin visited the printing company in London where he had apprenticed in the 1720s. Franklin purportedly took a turn at this press, although he had not operated a press when he worked there. The press was then deemed so historically valuable that it was purchased and transported to the United States, where it went on display in the Patent Office Building and later went to the Smithsonian as the "Franklin Press."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 17, Folder: 3
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1890s
- Standard number
- SIA2010-2429 or 17539-B or MAH-17539B
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 4 3/4w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Franklin Printing Press
- Artifacts
- Printing presses
- Historical Relics Collection
- Exhibitions
- English Common Press
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10292
