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Title Benjamin Franklin's grave postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1910
Physical Description 7 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb.
Notes Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white.
Accession numbers: P.8712.5f, P.9048.282, P.9049.13 - 15a, P.9105.8 and P.9441.25.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Tomb.
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Cemeteries - [various]
Accession number various
P.9441.25