Frank Furness
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Frank Heyling Furness was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinatel
Furness in 1901
University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia (1891), now the Fisher Fine Arts Library
Main Reading Room, looking north
Germantown Unitarian Church (1866–67, demolished ca. 1928)
Caroline Furness Jayne
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Caroline Augusta Jayne was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands.
Portrait by William Merritt Chase
An example of string figures from Jayne's book
Caroline Furness's childhood house in Washington Square, Philadelphia
Horace Jayne, in 1899