[Celebrating 75 years on the Parkway, June 2, 1927 - June 2, 2002 : the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia digital collection].

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[Celebrating 75 years on the Parkway, June 2, 1927 - June 2, 2002 : the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia digital collection].

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Photographs, drawings, plans, and other materials relating to design and construction of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which opened June 2, 1927, with additional emphasis on architects Horace Trumbauer and Julian Francis Abele.

117 photographs, 28 drawings, 26 items of realia, 22 floor plans, 16 books, 13 port. photographs, 11 cartoons, 11 letters, 9 Pellet prints, 8 site plans, 5 maps, 5 illustrations, 5 port. paintings, 4 ordinances, 3 blueprints, 2 port. engravings, 2 engravings, 2 mechanical drawings, 2 newspaper clippings, 1 lithograph, 1 postcard.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Abele, Julian Francis, 1881-1950

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Julian Francis Abele (born April 30, 1881, Philadelphia, Pa. – died April 23, 1950, Philadelphia, Pa.) was the son of Charles R. and Mary A. Abele. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (Certificate in Architectural Drawing, 1898, Frederick Graff Prize, 1898). Abele was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Department of Architecture (B.S. in Arch. 1902, Arthur Spayd Brooke Memorial Prize 1902). He was an active member of the University...

Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection

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Free Library of Philadelphia. Central Library

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Free library of Philadelphia

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This is a collection of manuscripts obtained by the Free Library of Philadelphia from various donations. The majority of the collection was donated by Philadelphia book collectors, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Gimbel and William McIntire Elkins. The collection has an even mix of American and European authors. Although the majority of the authors are represented with only a few pieces of work, eight authors are better represented. These include: American authors James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), Ezra P...

Trumbauer, Horace, 1869-1938

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Horace Trumbauer Born in the Frankford section of Philadelphia in 1868, Horace Trumbauer left school at the age of fourteen and entered the architectural firm of G. W. and W. D. Hewitt as an "errand boy". He was soon promoted to draftsman. Trumbauer's advancement and acquisition of knowledge enabled him to eventually open his own office in 1890. Trumbauer's first major commission was a mansion in Glenside, Pennsylvania, for sugar baron William Welsh Harrison....