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Deborah Read Franklin (1708-1714), wife of Benjamin Franklin, oil on canvas portrait attributed to Benjamin Wilson, c. 1758. American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

"Join or Die", a political cartoon attributed to Benjamin Franklin or James Turner, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Published during the French and Indian War, the cartoon was used...

Poor Richard, 1739. An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1739, written by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, 1739. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

A c. 1767 oil-on-canvas portrait by David Martin of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). This portrait depicts Franklin as a scholarly figure of the Enlightenment with a bust of Isaac Newton gazing at him. The portrait was...

Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor, photo taken by Japanese pilots in December 1941. The photo shows a line of seven US Navy battleships that were primary targets of the Japanese attackers. Notice the...

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Photograph taken in 1941. The USS West Virginia was one of seven ships that made up Battleship Row during the Battle of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Here it can be seen ablaze after...

Franklin the printer, photograph of a painting by artist Charles E. Mills, c. 1914. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Japanese troops enter French Indochina and head towards Lang Son in what is northern Vietnam today. During 1940, Japan began to encroach on French Indochina so that they could cut off the supplies that were...

Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter, photo taken on 26 May 1941, published in Imperial Japanese Navy Aces, 1937-45, p. 15, by Henry Sakaida. These planes saw extensive service during the Second World War (1939-45...

Oil seeping to the surface from the wreck of the USS Arizona is appropriately named the "tears of the Arizona", which still weeps to this day in remembrance of those who lost their lives during the Battle of Pearl Harbor...