May 1, 2026
Tag: Fruness Library University of Pennsylvania
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Frank Furness, Philadelphian
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Walking into a building for the first time seldom prompts the question, who was the architect? Names like Wright, van der Rohe, Gropius, Pei and Fuller come to mind, but Furness? – not so much. Frank Furness isn’t well known beyond his home town of Philadelphia, but his forty year career brought over six-hundred homes,…
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August 1, 2024 3 Comments
The world’s most celebrated pen-and-ink artist was Charles Gibson. He first achieved fame with a drawing he sold to Life magazine when he was 19 years old – The Gibson Girl. Not surprisingly he did other things too. Postcard History tells the whole story.