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Selected art related letters from the Benjamin Franklin papers, 1766-1789
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Selected art related letters from the Benjamin Franklin papers, 1766-1789

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Politician, Inventor

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Caffieri, Jean-Jacques
Franklin, William Temple
Houdon, Jean Antoine
Rittenhouse, David
Syng, Philip
Trumbull, John
West, Benjamin
Wright, Patience Lovell
Art, American

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