Collection Description

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.). Materials include original drawings and prints from 1888, originals and prints for subsequent alterations and additions by Furness, Evans, and Co. (1903-1923) and by Robert Rodes McGoodwin (1931), and limited documentation of a renovation/restoration (1985-1991) by Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown.

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