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"The Pioneer of Electric Science." Statue of Benjamin Franklin "looking toward heaven ere he set loose his kite to catch the lightnings...Monument not only of the great father of the republic whom it counterfeited, but a testimony as well of the genius of Carl Rohl-Smith, the Danish sculptor. 'Fulmen' (lightning or a thunderbolt) is above the statue on the front of the building." From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World's Fair by The Werner Company. 1893.

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