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Next Great City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Visitors race up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The prize they're fighting for is first glimpse of a special exhibit of paintings by Salvador Dali, whose eyes and long twirled moustache, portrayed here, make a surreal greeting.

Photograph by Raymond Patrick Text by Eleanor Stables

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