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Our Philadelphia (1914)

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 488

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beswept from the suburbs into the country, until who cansay where there will be any room for them at all? Withthe Russian Jews genius for adapting himself to Ameri-can institutions, I could fancy him taking possession of,and adding indefinitely to, the little two-story houses thatalready stretch in… … CHESTNUT STREET BRIDGE AFTER A QI ARTER OF A CENTURY 471 ^each little house with the same front yard, the sameporch, the same awning, the same rocking-chairs—1 had ahorrible waking nightmare in which I saw them multiply-ing—as the alien himself multiplied beyond the mostardent dreams of ]Mr.…

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

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