The All-Encompassing Benjamin Franklin

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1. The All-Encompassing Benjamin Franklin

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2. The All-Encompassing Benjamin Franklin

Roy E. Goodman

American Philosophical Society

3. The Common Wealth

The Common Wealth: Benjamin Franklin 8c the Building of Community

Guest Curators: Sherry Bufano & Roy E. Goodman
January 27-May 27, 2006

Lancaster County Historical Society
230 North President Avenue
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603
www.lancasterhistory.org

Shown in honor of the tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth.

ISBN: 0-910626-09-1

4. American Philosophical Society

Museum at Philosophical Hall

Philosophical Hall, adjacent to Independence Hall, has been the home of the American Philosophical Society since 1789. In its Museum, visitors will see exhibitions drawn from the Society’s renowned collections that trace American history and science from the Founding Fathers to the digital age.

5. Hundred dollar bill

Benjamin Franklin has appeared on the U.S. $100 bill since 1914 due to his pivotal role as a Founding Father, diplomat, inventor, and financial thinker. Microsoft Copilot result. (as of 2026-05-26)

6. Parade hat

Parade hat, Lancaster's Union Fire Company (founded in 1760), Lancaster, c. 1850.

7. Flax hatchels

Flax hatchels, used to process flax into linen, Lancaster, c. 1800.

8. Violin

Violin, used by a Lancaster musician, Germany, 1730.

9. Fraktur

top: Fraktur, or Taufscheine, Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, 1799.

bottom: Franklin Institute certificate, for Christian Metzler's design and production of the reversible railroad lantern, 1885.

Modern Fractur

10. Fraktur

Fraktur, produced to mark the births in Lancaster County of Adam and Anna Kindig, 1800.

11. Dimijohn

Demijohn, used in the wine merchant shop of Adam Reigart Jr., Lancaster, early 1800s.

12. Egg in turned wooded case

Egg in turned wooden case, lifted as part of the scientific collection of the Juliana Library Company, Lancaster, 1766.

13. Title page and steam ship

top: Title page, Lancaster-born Samuel Stanhope Smith's essay on the causes of variety found within the species of man, 1810.

bottom: Drawing of a Steam Ship, constructed by American Philosophical Society member William Henry of Lancaster, 1763.

14. Model of sail carriage

Model, William Henry's sail carriage, .

15. Transactions

The Transactions of the American Philosophical SOCIETY, etc.

Published in the AMERICAN MAGAZINE
During 1769.

16. Sentinel Register

p. 13.

17. Ephrata

p. 44.

18. Franklin Indian Treaties

Google AI Summary: (as of 2026-06-02)

Franklin aimed to establish peaceful relations with Native American tribes.
The treaties sought to secure land for colonial expansion and settlement.
They were part of a broader strategy to mitigate conflicts between settlers and Indigenous peoples.
Franklin emphasized mutual benefits and trade agreements in negotiations.
The treaties often resulted in the cession of large tracts of land to the colonies.
They reflected the changing dynamics of power and land ownership in colonial America.

19. Magic Squares

p. 106-107

20. Armonica

p. 81.

21. The Ingenious Dr. Franklin

p. 54.

22. Benjamin Franklin

p. 154-155.

23. Benjamin Franklin Will and Testament

24. Benjamin Franklin Will and Testament

The Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin
I, Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia, printer, late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of France, now President of the State of Pennsylvania, do make and declare my last will and testament as follows:
To my son, William Franklin, late Governor of the Jerseys, I give and devise all the lands I hold or have a right to, in the province of Nova Scotia, to hold to him, his heirs, and assigns forever. I also give to him all my books and papers, which he has in his possession, and all debts standing against him on my account books, willing that no payment for, nor restitution of, the same be required of him, by my executors. The part he acted against me in the late war, which is of public notoriety, will account for my leaving him no more of an estate he endeavoured to deprive me of.

25. Dr. Franklin's Legacy