Details
Contributor Currier & Ives, printer.
Title Franklin's experiment, June 1752. [graphic] : Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricity, from which he invented the lightning rod.
Publisher New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St
Date c1876
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph.
Description Depicts Benjamin Franklin during his kite experiment in a meadow near a dwelling in Philadelphia in 1752. Shows Franklin holding the string of the kite on which a key is tied. His twenty-one year old son, William, anachronistically shown as a boy, assists him. A lightening bolt crosses the sky.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 278
Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]. LOC holds two copies, one tinted.
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Subject Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 -- Portraits.
Franklin, William, 1731-1813 -- Portraits.
Electricity -- Experiments -- History.
Lightning -- Experiments -- History.
Experiments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Genre prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]
Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P] Tinted
Accession number LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]
LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P] Tinted