Spring 2010 - Pac801 - Final Exam Practice

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Spring 2010 - Pac801 - Final Exam Practice

Who was NOT an architect?

The _______ was a musical instrument used in minstrel shows and became a symbol of negative stereotypes of African–Americans.

The Delaware creation story references a ___________ rising up out of the water as the formation of the earth.

______ ________, was a film noir fiction writer from Philadelphia and a Temple graduate, who was most famous for Down there (Shoot the Piano Player).

______ _______ thought of Philadelphia as a "holy experiment" in the sense that its inhabitants would have religious and political freedom not available anywhere else.

The _____________ was a patented English process, an alternative to the Daguerreotype, based on the negative-positive process.

What is Joseph Saxton best known for doing, specifically?

In the early 19th century, Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum on the second floor of Independence Hall, featured portraits of the founding fathers painted by Peale and specimens of natural history, including the fossilized skeleton of a ________ he excavated.

Whose portrait did Gustavus Hesselius NOT paint?

The famous painting, _______ _______, by Thomas Eakins was painted for exhibition at the 1876 Centennial (in Memorial Hall) but it was rejected because it was considered too realistic, with its graphic bloody depiction of surgery.

Surveyor, ______ ________ took years to provide his long-awaited “Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America” which was eventually published in London in 1687.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe was the U.S.’s first professional ____________

The ________ Museum in Doylestown, named for its founder contains more than 50,000 objects from over 60 early American trades, which document the changing industry in Pennsylvania.

_________ ________was a French architect and urban planner who improved the plan for the Parkway and modeled it on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

John Moran practiced photography and wrote about the medium as:

______ ______ was a Quaker statesman, book collector and a member of Proprietary Party. He was friend and advisor to William Penn and set up a large country estate called ‘Stenton.’

On May 17, 1838: an anti‐Abolitionist mob burned the recently constructed ________ ____at Race and 6th Streets.

Which of the following artists was not a painter

________ ________ was named one of the Best Parks & Plazas by the Partners for Public Spaces.

______ _____, was an artist who was inspired by anatomy and the human body. He would eventually by ousted from his teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts because he had allowed nudity in a mixed gendered classroom.

The first historian of Philadelphia photography was the retired daguerrean Marcus Aurelius _________.

Who was NOT part of the original group of illustrators that would form the Ashcan school?

George Lippard was a 19th century writer and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, whose most famous work was _____________ which was initially given in several parts and based of the real 1843 trial of Singleton Mercer who was tried for the murder of his sister's rapist.

Caleb Crain recounts in his historical summary of the events surrounding the Quaker banishment to Virginia in 1777 that the remaining Quaker families directly appealed their husbands imprisonment by writing and visiting what influential American leader?

Which architect believed architecture is about feeling and expression, and taught students to "honor the brick."

Why is the period 1876-1905 called Philadelphia’s “Iron Age”?

From Charles Santore (p 40) “…In Colonial America the popularity of Windsor furniture knew no _______ boundaries. Merchants, generals, shopkeepers, clergymen, craftsmen, bankers, and revolutionaries all used Windsors to furnish their seating requirements.”

A 1712 arrival from _________, Gustavus Hesselius painted portraits of Lapowinska and Tishchohan in 1735

The term _____ _______ refers to areas deemed “hazardous” by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1935 survey that was designed to indicate the level of security for real estate investments for a program that would give new mortgages to homeowners at risk for foreclosure.

__________ __________ was a popular Philadelphian author who was most famous for his 1939 book, Kity Foyle, which would later become a hit Hollywood movie. The subject: the changing landscape of urban work in the late 30-40s, and a romance with a Philadelphia socialite

_____ ______was a Quaker reformer known for his theatrical demonstrations of his beliefs in Quaker. He denounced slavery and men of war.

When William Penn was 21 years old in 1665, London was hit by the bubonic plague. One year later it was devastated by _________ .

"_____ _____ is a reflection of how we see the world—the artist’s response to our time and place combined with our own sense of who we are.”

______ ________ ______ studied under Thomas Eakins and created The Banjo Lesson which rejects stereotypical images of African American culture and reclaims the banjo in respectful image that speaks to family, continuity and culture.

What is the first line from George Lippard's The Quaker City?

This American botanist and travel journal writer sketched birds, plants, and animals and published his Travels in Florida and the south in the early 1790’s. He is remembered for the botanical gardens named for him and his father in Philadelphia: _________ __________.

The _______________ process of printmaking, a relatively easy and inexpensive process compared with engraving copper plates, requires that the artist draws with wax pencils on polished stone.

________ ________ ________ was a cartoonist from the late 1820s whose work focused on social pretensions of many groups within Philadelphia society.

This Philadelphia photographer is known best for pioneering photography as a commercial venture: __________ __________

During the Civil War and into the new century Philadelphia expanded and evolved into the “ _________ of the World,” a nickname that references the city as an industrial center.

The "trinity" of Philadelphia industry at the turn of the century was iron/ steel, coal, and the ________

In 1876, the _______ _________the celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence through technology, expression and exuberance.

______ ______ was a architect from the Victorian era known for his bold, muscular and eclectic designs such as Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and many banks along Chestnut Street.

_______ ________ was a business photographer hired by the Pennsylvania Railroad to take pictures that would encourage travel by rail.

Every year, starting in 1733, one out of every four people bought a copy of Poor Richard's Almanack. It was first issued by ______ _________.

Charles Brockden Brown’s 1799 novel, Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is based on the 1737 land grab by James Logan and William Penn’s sons known as the ________ ________.

Who wrote the following lines:"The people here in this city are mostly sinful and ungodly, a mixture of many religions. The teachings of the Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Papists, etc. are a hindrance for our pure religion."

__, was a film noir fiction writer from Philadelphia and a Temple graduate, who was most famous for Down there (Shoot the Piano Player).

_ thought of Philadelphia as a "holy experiment" in the sense that its inhabitants would have religious and political freedom not available anywhere else.

In the early 19^th century, Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum on the second floor of Independence Hall, featured portraits of the founding fathers painted by Peale and specimens of natural history, including the fossilized skeleton of a ________ he excavated.

The famous painting, _ _, by Thomas Eakins was painted for exhibition at the 1876 Centennial (in Memorial Hall) but it was rejected because it was considered too realistic, with its graphic bloody depiction of surgery.

Surveyor, __ took years to provide his long-awaited “Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America” which was eventually published in London in 1687.

_ was a French architect and urban planner who improved the plan for the Parkway and modeled it on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

was a Quaker statesman, book collector and a member of Proprietary Party. He was friend and advisor to William Penn and set up a large country estate called ‘Stenton.’

On May 17, 1838: an anti‐Abolitionist mob burned the recently constructed ____ at Race and 6th Streets.

was named one of the Best Parks & Plazas by the Partners for Public Spaces.

__ _, was an artist who was inspired by anatomy and the human body. He would eventually by ousted from his teaching position at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts because he had allowed nudity in a mixed gendered classroom.

George Lippard was a 19^th century writer and founder of the Brotherhood of the Union, whose most famous work was _____________ which was initially given in several parts and based of the real 1843 trial of Singleton Mercer who was tried for the murder of his sister's rapist.

The term _ ___ refers to areas deemed “hazardous” by the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1935 survey that was designed to indicate the level of security for real estate investments for a program that would give new mortgages to homeowners at risk for foreclosure.

was a popular Philadelphian author who was most famous for his 1939 book, Kity Foyle, which would later become a hit Hollywood movie. The subject: the changing landscape of urban work in the late 30-40s, and a romance with a Philadelphia socialite

_ __was a Quaker reformer known for his theatrical demonstrations of his beliefs in Quaker. He denounced slavery and men of war.

"_ _ is a reflection of how we see the world—the artist’s response to our time and place combined with our own sense of who we are.”

studied under Thomas Eakins and created The Banjo Lesson which rejects stereotypical images of African American culture and reclaims the banjo in respectful image that speaks to family, continuity and culture.

This American botanist and travel journal writer sketched birds, plants, and animals and published his Travels in Florida and the south in the early 1790’s. He is remembered for the botanical gardens named for him and his father in Philadelphia: _ __.

was a cartoonist from the late 1820s whose work focused on social pretensions of many groups within Philadelphia society.

This Philadelphia photographer is known best for pioneering photography as a commercial venture:

In 1876, the _ ___the celebrated the 100^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence through technology, expression and exuberance.

was a architect from the Victorian era known for his bold, muscular and eclectic designs such as Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and many banks along Chestnut Street.

_ __ was a business photographer hired by the Pennsylvania Railroad to take pictures that would encourage travel by rail.

Every year, starting in 1733, one out of every four people bought a copy of Poor Richard's Almanack. It was first issued by ___.

Charles Brockden Brown’s 1799 novel, Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is based on the 1737 land grab by James Logan and William Penn’s sons known as the .