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Wash day at some New York tenement buildings

October 21

one standing on a heavy carved wooden table

'Herod's birthday feast'

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist mb-artistname Henry James Holding Wash day at some NewBenjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Franklin (1706 1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published