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File:Franklin-Benjamin-LOC.jpg

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Engraving: H. B. Hall from the original picture in Passel painted from life by J.A. Duplessis in 1783, and now (1868) in the possession of John Bigelow Esq.
Title Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Date 1868
Medium engraving
Source/Photographer Library of Congress LC-USZ62-25564
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