Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States ... wardrobe carefully to match their social stature and political agendas. The three-piece silk suit pictured above belonged to Franklin; ...

Ben Franklin's "ditto" suit helped convey American values to the French National Museum of American History, S.I./Massachusetts Historical Society Franklin understood how sensitive his assignment ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...