Philadelphia has had to stretch a bit to capitalize on its association with Benjamin Franklin; sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t. I suspect that many of the visitors to 322 Market Street leave believing that they’ve seen a replica of Ben’s own office, but the restored room actually belonged to his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache.
It’s still historical, and still of interest, whether or not the association with the founding father is direct, so it doesn’t particularly bother me that the two Bens get a bit conflated. As often happens, it’s the small artifacts of life that catch my eye most frequently. Here’s what I saw on the wall at the address in question:
Grandson Benjamin published his own newspaper, The Aurora, here in the late 1700s, and this was his wall file. Butterick’s got nuthin’ on Ben Bache. (You’ll need to click on the third picture from the left, directly under the large picture at the link to get the specific reference. Heaven forfend a pattern site link should actually be useful.)