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Although we don’t know who created them, we love these ink drawings that were found on the front free endpaper of Benjamin Franklin’s copy of congressional proceedings from November 1783 to June 1784.

United States. Continental Congress.  Journal of the United States in Congress assembled: : containing the proceedings from the third day of November, 1783, to the third day of June, 1784. Volume IX. Published by order of Congress. Philadelphia [Pa.]: : Printed by John Dunlap, printer to the United States in Congress assembled., [1784] [2], 317, [1], xviii p. ;  22 cm (8vo) 

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