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  • Abele, Julian Francis
  • Adam, Robert
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  • Allen, William Steven, Jr.
  • Audsley, George Ashdown

B

  • Bacon, Edmund Norwood
  • Baker & Dallett
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  • Bendiner, Alfred
  • Bernheimer, Betty Ray
  • Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis
  • Blount, Gilbert R.
  • Bower, John Arnold, Sr.
  • Bronx Parkway Commission
  • Buchman & Kahn
  • Butterfield, William

C

  • Canton Christian College
  • Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen
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  • Cautley, Marjorie Sewell
  • Chambers, Sir William
  • Chandler, Theophilus Parsons, Jr.
  • Clemmer, Leon
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D

  • Daub, George
  • Day & Klauder
  • Day, Frank Miles
  • Day, Kenneth Mackenzie
  • Day, Norman
  • Debret, François
  • DiNardo, Antonio
  • Donohoe, Victoria
  • Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldas
  • Drake, Lawrence
  • Dumont, Jacques
  • Durfee, William Franklin

E

  • Eberson, John
  • Ellett, Thomas Harlan
  • Evans, Allen
  • Evans, John Lane
  • Eyre, Wilson, Jr.

F

  • Falck, Dyer Alfred Lindsay
  • Ferriss, Hugh
  • Feustmann, Maurice Mayer
  • Fielding, Mantle
  • Frascari, Marco
  • Fredenthal, Robinson
  • Fuller, R. Buckminster
  • Furness - Arcade Building
  • Furness - Girard Trust Building
  • Furness - University of Pennsylvania Library
  • Furness - Wilmington Station

G

  • Geddes, Brecher, Qualls & Cunningham
  • Geerlings, Gerald Kenneth
  • Gilchrist, Edmund Beaman
  • Goldberg, Steven
  • Gray, Eileen
  • Gréber, Jacques
  • Grisdale, John Thomas
  • Guise, David
  • Gutkind, Erwin Anton

H

  • Halprin, Lawrence
  • Hanna, Robert Mitchell
  • Harris, Britton
  • Hassinger, Herman
  • Hirzel, Charles Koch
  • Hood, Raymond Mathewson
  • Hough, Charles Shoemaker
  • Hough, William Jarrett Hallowell
  • Hutton, Addison

I

  • Isham, Norman Morrison
  • Isthmian Canal Commission

J

  • Johansen, John MacLane

K

  • Kahn - Bernie Cleff
  • Kahn - Campidoglio Drawing
  • Kahn - Esther Kahn
  • Kahn - Fanny Seligman
  • Kahn - First Unitarian Church
  • Kahn - Fisher House
  • Kahn - James F. Williamson
  • Kahn - Kimbell Art Museum
  • Kahn - Mildred Schmertz
  • Kahn - Richard Saul Wurmann
  • Kahn - Sue Ann Kahn
  • Kahn - Swetik Korzeniewski
  • Kahn, Louis I.
  • Kieran Timberlake
  • Klauder - Woodrow Wilson House
  • Kling - Nicholson House
  • Knowles, Brigitte L. & John Christopher
  • Knowles, James Thomas, Sr.
  • Kohn Pederson Fox - Shanghai Tower
  • Komendant, August E.
  • Koyl, George Simpson
  • Kreier, George J. Jr.

L

  • La France, Rollin R.
  • Laird, Warren Powers
  • Lawrie, Lee O.
  • Lawson, John & Lorna Katz-Lawson
  • Le Corbusier - Lecture Sketches
  • Le Ricolais, Georges Robert
  • Leavitt, David L.
  • Levinson, Joel
  • Lewis, George Mifflin Dallas
  • Lloyd, John Frederick
  • Lobell, Mimi
  • Longstreth, Thaddeus

M

  • Mansell, T. Norman
  • Martin, Stewart, Noble & Class
  • McGoodwin, Robert Rodes
  • McHarg, Ian L.
  • Mellor, Meigs & Howe
  • Mendham, John Bernard
  • Mertins, Detlef
  • Mesnard, Jules-Auguste
  • Meyers, Marshall David
  • Michener - Le Corbusier Sketches
  • Mitchell/Giurgola - New York Office
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  • Montgomery & Bishop
  • Moore, Charles
  • Myers, Hyman and Sandra

N

  • Nakashima - Shahn House
  • Nelson, Paul Daniel
  • Nesfield & Shaw
  • Nicholais, John
  • Nichols, Minerva Parker
  • Nolen, John

O

  • Oakes, Earle D.
  • Oakley, Thornton
  • Okie, Richardson Brognard
  • Olin, Laurie
  • Oshiver, Samuel Israel

P

  • Panfili, Pio
  • Pattison, Harriet
  • Patton, George Erwin
  • Peabody & Stearns - Biddle Residence
  • Peck, Frederick William Gunster
  • Perkins, George Holmes
  • Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
  • Philadelphia City Hall
  • Philadelphia City Planning Commission
  • Pohl, George
  • Polk, David C.S.
  • Price, Beryl
  • Price, Llewellyn R.
  • Price, William L.

R

  • Raje, Anant D.
  • Rapkin, Chester
  • Raymond - Carson House
  • Raymond - Masanori Sugiyama
  • Raymond - Stone House
  • Raymond, Antonin and Noémi Pernessin
  • Register, Henry Bartol
  • Reinhold - Buchanan Residence
  • Renard, Jean Augustin
  • Rhodes, William and Sally
  • Rice, Norman
  • Richards, Thomas Webb
  • Robertson, Daniel
  • Romañach, Mario Jose

S

  • Sandby, Thomas
  • Sauer, Louis
  • Savery, Scheetz & Gilmour
  • Scarpa, Carlo
  • Schlesinger, Frank
  • Schmertz, Mildred
  • Seeler, Edgar Viguers
  • Shay, Howell Lewis
  • Shepheard, Sir Peter Faulkner
  • Silverman & Levy - S.S. Neuman Residence
  • Society Hill
  • Stanton, William Macy
  • Sternfeld, Harry
  • Stonorov, Oskar Gregory
  • Stupplebeem, David

T

  • Teitelman, Edward Albert
  • Thalheimer, Jack
  • Thomas, Marianna
  • Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick
  • Tilden, Register & Pepper
  • Todd, Thomas A.
  • Traymore Hotel
  • Trumbauer - Wasserman House
  • Tyng, Anne Griswold

U

  • Ueland & Junker
  • University of Pennsylvania - Buildings and Grounds
  • University of Pennsylvania - Bulletin
  • University of Pennsylvania - Comparative Study of Philadelphia Rowhouses
  • University of Pennsylvania - GSFA Chinese Students
  • University of Pennsylvania - Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
  • University of Pennsylvania - Morris Arboretum

V

  • Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin
  • Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
  • Vermont Marble Company
  • Villain, Edouard-Auguste
  • Vollmer, Roy

v

  • vanden Heuvel, William

W

  • Watson & Huckel
  • Weinbrenner, Friedrich
  • Weise, Frank
  • White Tower
  • White, Arthur Blose
  • White, Stanford
  • Wilcots, Henry
  • Willing, Charles
  • Winslow, Philip N.
  • Withers, Frederick Clarke
  • Woolmington, Clarence Hassard
  • Wormann, Hans Norbert
  • Wright - Publicker House
  • Wyatt, Lewis William
  • Wyatt, Thomas Henry

Y

  • Yang, Ting Pao
  • Yarnall, Richard Ashbridge
  • Yellin, Samuel
  • Yoshiko, Godai

Z

  • Zahn - Roberto Burle Marx
  • Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
Sketch of the Fisher Fine Arts library building
Furness - University of Pennsylvania Library

Frank Furness University of Pennsylvania Library Collection (195), Project, 1888-1991

Frank Furness was a Victorian era architect, who designed over 600 buildings in the Philadelphia area.  Furness was known for his eclectic style and use of modern technologies that influenced architects like Louis Sullvan, William Price and Robert Venturi. Among his most important surviving buildings are the University of Pennsylvania Library (now the Fisher Fine Arts Library), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his train stations commissioned by the the Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania and Reading railroads.

The Library of the University of Pennsylvania was designed in 1888 by Frank Furness, in consultation with Melvil Dewey and the librarian of Harvard University, Justin Winsor. The building was constructed between 1889 and 1890 and underwent several expansions. In 1962, the library became the Fine Arts Library after the University built a new library for the School of Arts and Sciences.

This collection comprises architectural drawings, photoprints and papers documenting the architecture of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, designed in 1888 by Frank Furness (Furness, Evans, and Co.).

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