Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere Wagner sign co almost luxurious

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Aboard the Ben Franklin, Wonderful 1854 Naive Drawing with Waving Sailors Everywhere Wagner sign co almost luxuriousA total charmer of a naive ship drawing, drawn in graphite by H. Smith of Lawrence, MA, "in the evening" of November 30, 1854 on pale blue wove paper. With Ben Franklin lettered across the side of the hull, and more B. F. s everywhere, I believe the drawing represents the first USS Franklin (there were more to follow), built in 1815, the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and razed, in 1852, in Portsmouth, NH which would make