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Articles with keyword "Philadelphia"

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A Fanciful Nature

Realism and fantasy mingle in the worlds of Beatrix Potter, Kate Greenaway, and Arthur Rackham.

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Ben in Print

Thirty-seven volumes and counting.

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Pennsylvania's Joe Kelly

Joe Kelly works to tell Pennsylvania's stories.

Illustration of Henry Brown

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This End Up

Henry Box Brown mailed himself to freedom.

Beth Shalom in Elkins Park, PA

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Cohen: Codesigner

Rabbi and Architect Scale New Heights with Innovative Synagogue.

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The Wreck of the Reformation

Florida's coast was a deadly place for seventeenth-century castaways.

Lansdowne, the home of saloniere Anne Willing Bingham.

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The Early American Salon

In the manuscript culture of the pre-print age, a lost world of poetry has been rediscovered.

John Wanamaker Monorail

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John Wanamaker Monorail

Shouldn’t these tiny travelers be beaming?

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The "Etheric Force Machine"

John Ernst Worrell Keely was, in his own words, “the greatest humbug of the nineteenth century.” The perpetrator of a long-running and remarkably elaborate pseudoscientific scam, Keely convinced numer

Exhibition Hall at Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia

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Wagner Free Institute of Science

The Exhibition Hall at the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, with its original systematic scheme of cherry-wood cabinets dating from the 1880s, provides a rare view of a Victorian scie