print email comment close Benjamin Franklin ... In His Own Words URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-home.html Description: This online exhibition "concentrates on his [Franklin's] achievements as a printer and writer, an inventor and scientist, and, particularly, as a politician and statesman." It features images of "documents, letters, books, broadsides, and cartoons" on topics such as initial support and then opposition to the 1765 British Stamp Act, the Continental Congress, and the Treaty of Paris. Includes a chronology and partial transcriptions of selected manuscripts. From the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress LII Database Information: Record 22929 created by Maria Brandt on 11/20/2006 Last modification on 11/22/2006 Published: 11/22/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22929