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Our Philadelphia (1914)

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 530

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n solitary grandeur since I hadlast dined in Philadelphia. The old rough kindliness of thepeople—^when they were not aliens—in the streets, in thestores, in the trolleys, went to my heart. And in largerways, too, the place filled me with pride for its constancy:for the steady development of all… … THK (IIR.VRD TRIST COMrANY AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY 513 to itself. It may live more in publie than it did, but it stilldoes not shriek all its seerets from the house-top. It doesnot thrust all its wealth down every mans throat. It stillhides many of its luxurious private palaees behind…

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

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