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To: Ditto
Not THE library ... but the concept of the free library.

"Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Franklin is probably best known in the library community for founding the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731. It was America's first lending library and can lay claim to being the predecessor of the free public library. For a brief period (Dec. 1733-Mar. 1734) Franklin actually served as the librarian for the Library Company. He also served as its secretary from 1746 to 1757. Franklin considered the Library Company to be the "Mother of all N. American Subscription Libraries ....". Franklin appeared on the first United States postage stamp (at left) and has been depicted on more U.S. postage stamps than any other American except George Washington.">


5 posted on 09/22/2013 4:52:26 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

But naming a Libary in D.C. after Douglass isn’t dissing Ben. Douglass was a great supportor of literacy and lived the final 25 years of his life in Washington, a city that didn’t even exist during Ben’s lifetime.


6 posted on 09/22/2013 5:30:19 AM PDT by Ditto
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