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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]
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.
Benjamin Franklin's printing network : disseminating virtue in early America. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-16144. —— (May 2006). "The Emergence of the American Colonial Press". Pennsylvania Legacies. 6 (1). University of Pennsylvania Press: 11– 15. JSTOR 27765021. Furtwangler, Albert (1984).
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 ]
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 ...
Irish-born American publisher and economist from Philadelphia, founder of The Pennsylvania Herald, with the help of Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette Francis Childs (printer) 1763–1830 publisher and printer of The New York Daily Advertiser; printer for the newly established United States government in 1783
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.
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