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Benjamin Franklin's PORTRAIT is on the $100 bill. He was an inventor, publisher, scientist and statesman; Invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove and other things.

But one thing he neither invented nor lived to see was Photography; Franklin died almost a half-century before portrait photography became a reality.

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