Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 550
rees to become tooscattered to preserve the present composition; they pro-vide an astounding and ever-varying arrangement oftowers and spires from neighbouring corners and cross-ings; they give new interest as a background to somesimple bit of old Philadelphia, as where Wanamakersrises sheer and… … THE UNION LEAGUE BETWEEN THE SKY-SCRAPERS AFTER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY 538 that gave us Girard College and the Mint and Fair-mount Water-Works—stands low among the clusteredtowers, just as many a town in the Alps or Apennineslies low in the cup of the hills, and is the lovelier forit; they redeem…
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 · Lithography, American
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