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Our Philadelphia (1914)

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 304

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s of the houses they shaded. But what is the use oftroubling about the might-have-been? The importantthing is that, with him I did for the first time see howbeautiful are our green, well-shaded streets. With himtoo I first saw how beautiful is their symmetry as they runin their long straight lines… … FRANKLINS GRAVE M THE ROMANCE OF WORK 287 Penn had left the building and growth of Philadelphia tochance as the founders of other American towns did—theywould rather boast with New York or Boston of the dis-orderly picturesqueness of streets that follow old cowtracks made before the town was. But…

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 · Lithography, American

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