Benjamin Franklin’s Printing House in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where one of the most esteemed of America’s “founding fathers” published The Gazette, the most successful newspaper in Britain’s American colonies, and gained fame as a puckish writer in his Poor Richard’s Almanack. However, the most profitable business was becoming the official printer of Pennsylvania in 1730 and of New Jersey in 1740. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2013.