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In 1787, Franklin built a print shop within the lot for his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache, who would publish the Philadelphia Aurora there. Franklin died at the site in 1790. The house (and with it, it is suspected, the print shop) was demolished in 1812 during a redevelopment of the courtyard to an income-producing property. [1]
David Hall: Printing partner of Benjamin Franklin. Manuscripts (PhD). American Philosophical Society In February 1766 Franklin sold his share in the business to Hall. Lemay, J.A. Leo (1 October 2014). Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9141-4. Lippincott, Horace Mather (1917).
Keimer and Bradford were then the only printers in the colony of Pennsylvania. Keimer had come to America with an old printing press, and a worn-out font of English letters. [2] When Benjamin Franklin, aged 17, came to Philadelphia looking for a job in 1723, [4] he went first to Bradford’s printing business. [4]
Frasca, Ralph (Autumn 2004). "Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network and the Stamp Act". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 71 (4). Penn State University Press: 403– 419. JSTOR 27778636. Frasca (May 2006). "The Emergence of the American Colonial Press". Pennsylvania Legacies. 6 (1). University of Pennsylvania Press: 11– 15.
Founded in Boston by James Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who was started in retaliation [42] for losing his printing job at the Boston Gazette when its ownership changed hands and the printing was given to Samuel Kneeland. [43] [44] Writing under the assumed name of Silence Dogood, Benjamin Franklin wrote more than a dozen ...
Benjamin Franklin in 1729, who bought and reoriented the publication into a 'news only' newspaper: Founded: 1728; 297 years ago () (as The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette) Political alignment: Non partisan: Ceased publication: 1800 () Headquarters: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
The paper also highlights Franklin's use of “nature printing,” a technique by which he transferred the detailed vein patterns of tree leaves to printing plates. These techniques raised ...
Benjamin Franklin Bache 1769–1798 Journalist, printer and publisher. Founded the Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy, known for its attacks on Federalist leaders, including George Washington. Known for polarizing the press, prompting the Alien and Sedition Acts