A very brief and very comprehensive life of Ben. Franklin, printer
By: done into quaint verse by one of the types, September 17th, 1856
Contributors: J.C. French & Brother; Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: J.C. French & Brother
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Notes: Verse in thirty stanzas; first line: Kind friends, just list[!] to our ditty.

By B.P. Shillaber. The broadside, issued in both large and small paper formats, was printed on a press "from the office of Messrs. J.C. French & Brother" and distributed to the spectators during the course of the procession in Boston to celebrate the inauguration of the bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin. Cf. BAL.

Text in three columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 26.7 x 20.8 cm.

BAL 17546

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.