Historic row houses on Market Street that Franklin once rented out, and which now are the face of Franklin Court in Independence National Historical Park. To the left of the archway is a post office, and to the right is a re-creation of an eighteenth-century print shop. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Original passageway Franklin used to access his house from Market Street. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

On the other side of the passageway: looking at the spot where Franklin built a print shop for his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, in 1787. Behind is the place where Franklin’s house stood. The original buildings are gone but are marked by these “ghost structures.” (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Looking from the print shop “ghost structure” back through the passageway to Market Street. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Franklin Privy Pit. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Eighteenth-century print shop re-creation. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Inking the type with ink balls. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Pressing the type into the paper. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Type cases. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Franklin’s grave, Christ Church Burial Ground. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Christ Church Burial Ground. (Photo by Nathan Kozuskanich)

Philadelphia State House (i.e., Independence Hall), home of the Second Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, depicted on a 1752 map. (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)

“The German Bleeds,” a political cartoon attacking Franklin’s opposition to the ‘Paxton Boys,’ c. 1764. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

“Join or Die,” by Benjamin Franklin, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1754. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)