"Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World," Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary traveling exhibition, 2005-2008

Joubert, François

Talbott, Page, ed., Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (New Haven and London: Yale University, 2005) (companion book to exhibition of same title)

The lamp was given to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1972 by Lawrence Wainwright, of California. Wainwright (1896-1984) was the son of Dallas Bache Wainwright, and heir of Franklin's grandson Richard Bache II.