001 History of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Ben Franklin's World
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Benjamin Franklin's Library
The library company has really deep collections. Part of that is because Benjamin Franklin and his fellow Jinto members founded the library company on July 1, 1731. It is Benjamin Franklin's library. So could you tell us what the Jinto was and why Franklin and his colleagues wanted to start a library? Yeah. Oh, that'd be great.
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