Date / Time
- November 3, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Admission is free for all members. Not a member? Learn more.
- This is an in-person program at The Rosenbach. Please check your spam folder for your email confirmation. If you have questions, please call (215) 732-1600 or email [email protected].
- This event is for Rosenbach and Delancey Society members only.
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Description
Members are invited to be the first to experience the tour American Prometheus: Benjamin Franklin and the Philadelphia Enlightenment before it is available to the general public. This tour will give members a chance to view some of our remarkable artifacts, hear readings from Franklin’s autobiography, and discuss how Franklin fits into the enlightenment in Philadelphia in the 1700 and early 1800s.
Image: Mason Chamberlin, artist, and E. Fisher, engraver, B. Franklin of Philadelphia L.L.D. 1763. Sold by M. Chamberlin in Stewart Street, Old Artillery Ground, Spittalfields [sic; London]. Mezzotint on wove paper, 15 ¾” H x 12 ½” W. 1954.0829.
Date / Time
- November 3, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm