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A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was commissioned by Robert...

Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

A 1944 portrait photograph by Leon Perskie of the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), statesman and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, oil on canvas portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, painted in Paris, c. 1785. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785, after serving as commissioner to France during the American Revolution, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, c. late 19th century. Private collection.

Confederate troops assault the Union lines at the Battle of Franklin (30 Nov 1864), one of the final major battles of the American Civil War (1861-1865), print by Kurz and Allison, 1891. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a partisan newspaper supporting the Democratic-Republican Party. Bache was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Acts and died...

Oil on slate painting by Benjamin West, c.1816. From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Treaty of Paris, signed on 3 September 1783 by representatives from Great Britain and the United States, was the peace agreement that formally ended the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and recognized the United States as an independent...