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Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

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Required in Caption:  Top portion of a lightning rod, Designed by Benjamin Franklin, The Frankliniana Collection, The Franklin Institute, Inc., Philadelphia, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Mason Chamberlin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photo by Graydon Wood, 1995
Required in Caption: Tankard, with Benjamin Franklin’s coat of arms (Philadelphia), Elias Boudinot, The Frankliniana Collection, The Franklin Institute, Inc., Philadelphia, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: Glass armonica (English), Charles James (designed by Benjamin Franklin), Franklin Institute The Frankliniana Collection, The Franklin Institute, Inc., Philadelphia, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: Poor Richard, 1733: An Almanack For the Year of Christ 1733 . . ., Richard Saunders (Benjamin Franklin), Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: Electrical Apparatus, Designed by Benjamin Franklin, made by Philadelphia-area craftsmen, including Wistarburgh Glassworks, N.J., Library Company of Philadelphia
Required in Caption: Chess set (French), American Philosophical Society, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: "Electrical Battery" of Leyden jars, American Philosophical Society, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: Benjamin Franklin, Charles-Nicholas Cochin, engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Collection of Stuart E. Karu, Photo by Peter Harholdt
Required in Caption: “Join, or Die,” cartoon in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Benjamin Franklin, Library Company of Philadelphia
 

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Required in Caption: Seeking Opportunity Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.
Required in Caption: Printer’s Apprentice Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.
Required in Caption: Charting the Gulf Stream Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.
Required in Caption: Master Diplomat Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Anne-Rosalie Boquet Filleul; Collection of Leonore Annenberg.
Required in Caption: Thunder House Video Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from the Thunder House, Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis.
Required in Caption: The Whistle Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from portrait of Francis Folger Franklin attributed to Samuel Johnson; Private Collection.
Required in Caption: A China Bowl with a Spoon of Silver Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Wilson; Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State.
Required in Caption: Brave Men at Fires Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from Certificate of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, New York, possibly by Henry Dawkins, ca. 1753; The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Required in Caption: The Window Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.
Required in Caption: Swimming by Kite Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Robert Feke; Harvard University Portrait Collection.

Animation
Required in Caption: The Gout and Mr. Franklin Produced by A More Perfect Union, LLC for the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary’s traveling exhibition, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, with detail from portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.