The 1976 book titled The World of Franklin and Jefferson, was a companion book produced by the original Eames Office to accompany the exhibition of the same name which toured Europe and the US from 1975 until 1977 to celebrate the bi-centennial (200 years) of American Independence. By the mid 1970's and the Eames Office was very much focused on producing high level exhibition content and films rather than the furniture designs of its earlier days. The sheer quality and complex layers of information, along with the very bold, modern and visual way they were able to display it, was the reason for their great success. The 1976 exhibition was run with the Modern Art Museum of New York, via a grant from IBM. It was intended to showcase the founding fathers Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Three years of dedicated research went into the project and included photography, history, historical artifacts, documents and a whole lot more. But the exhibition was not merely focused on a mon