State Library of Pennsylvania - Benjamin Franklin

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Materials by and about Benjamin Franklin from the State Library collection digitized in commemoration of his 300th birthday.
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Ben Franklin's other library : the Pennsylvania State Library.
Ben Franklin's other library : the Pennsylvania State Library.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Libraries, State Library of Pennsylvania -- History, Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- History
A history and description of the State Library of Pennsylvania at its 220th anniversary. Acknowledges the Benjamin Franklin's "participation was on a technical basis only, as that of a clerk who was requested to order some books." Continues by sketching the subsequent history of the Library. Describes the organization and mission of the Library. Written in fulfillment of requirements for a 'Library in Society' course at the Drexel Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Library Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.