Friday, April 25, 2014

Daily Dose

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

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