July 11, 2025
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,…
Past Article
June 4, 2024 5 Comments
In Part I of “Wish You Were Here” it was suggested that prison postcards would not make good change of address notices. That is still true and so is it that finding “prison” postcards and collecting them is not easy. This Part II article reminds us of what a diverse world we explore by collecting postcards.