From On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History, by Nicholas A. Basbanes
THE FIRST
"The first American passports were designed and printed in 1783 by Benjamin Franklin, at a small printing shop he had set up for his personal amusement in France, his home for nine years during the Revolution."
From Chapter 8, Papers, Please
Friday, April 25, 2014
Daily Dose
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