Exhibition curators: Brandon Brame Fortune, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition sponsors: Smithsonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund and the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Studies Fund
Webpage design : Deborah L. Sisum, Webmaster, National Portrait Gallery
Digital photography: Marianne Gurley, Photographer, National Portrait Gallery
Publication: Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America by Brandon Brame Fortune with Deborah J. Warner, takes a new look at early American science through the lens of portraiture. Illustrated are portraits of Benjamin Franklin, his scientific colleagues, and scientific instruments of the period. Softcover.
Organization:"Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America" was organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Deborah J. Warner, Curator, Division of Science, Medicine, and Society, at the National Museum of American History