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2 unusual facts about Philadelphia University


John D. Lankenau

In 1972, the school sold the complex to Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (which renovated it and used it as a student center until demolishing it in 2006) and moved again.

Philadelphia University

In 1880, they formed the Philadelphia Association of Manufacturers of Textile Fabrics, with Theodore C. Search as its president, to fight for higher tariffs on imported textiles and to educate local textile leaders.



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Dora Curtis

Dora Curtis was an artist, member of the expedition together with Maud Doria Haviland (1889–1941), Miss Maria Antonina Czaplicka (1886–1921), Polish anthropologist, and Mr. Henry Usher Hall, of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876–1944), on a trip down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Kara Sea in 1914.

Maud Doria Haviland

During this journey, on which she was accompanied by Polish anthropologistMaria Antonina Czaplicka (1886–1921), painter Dora Curtis and Henry Usher Hall of the Philadelphia University Museum (1876–1944), she wrote her impressions about nature and the birds,.