Fairmount Park Art Association records


Collection HSP.2045

1871-1972
(84.0 Linear feet)

Summary Information

Repository
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Fairmount Park Art Association.
Title
Fairmount Park Art Association records
ID
HSP.2045
Date [inclusive]
1871-1972
Extent
84.0 Linear feet
Sponsor
The creation of the electronic guide for this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project. Finding aid by Garrett Boos, Courtney Smerz, and Matthew Lyons.
Language
English
Abstract
The Fairmount Park Art Association is the nation's first private, nonprofit organization that works to integrate public art and urban planning. Its aim is "to promote and foster the beautiful in the City of Philadelphia, in its architecture, improvements and general plan." It is not a city agency or a division of the Fairmount Park Commission or the Art Commission. The Fairmount Park Art Association records span the time from when the association was formed in 1872 until 1972. These records were deposited with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1975. Most of the collection is composed of general records of the association and the different pieces of art it was responsible for acquiring during this time period.

Preferred Citation note

[Description and date of item], [Box number], [accession number], Fairmount Park Art Association records, 1871-1972, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Biographical/Historical note

The Fairmount Park Art Association (FPAA) was the United States’ first private, nonprofit organization that worked to integrate public art and urban planning. The FPAA was founded in 1872 by concerned citizens who wanted to use public art to beautify Philadelphia during a period of industrial expansion. Charles H. Howell and Henry K. Fox initiated the association, and Anthony J. Drexel was its first president. The FPAA initially focused on enhancing Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park by purchasing and commissioning sculpture, but by 1906 it had embraced a broader goal: "to promote and foster the beautiful in the City of Philadelphia, in its architecture, improvements and general plan."

The FPAA supported planning projects such as the design of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a grand boulevard punctuated by outdoor sculpture; the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial Sculpture Garden along Kelly Drive and the Schuylkill River; and the International Sculpture Garden at Penn’s Landing on the Delaware River. The FPAA also advocated the establishment of Philadelphia’s Art Jury, which later became the city’s Art Commission and the first “percent for art” ordinance, under which a percentage of construction costs for city projects must be set aside for fine arts.

In 2012, the Fairmount Park Art Association changed its name to the Association for Public Art (aPA), to more clearly reflect its work and to distinguish the organization from other local and national public art agencies. The aPA continues to commission, preserve, promote, and interpret public art in Philadelphia.

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Scope and Contents note

The Fairmount Park Art Association records span from 1872, when the association was formed, until 1972. The collection includes the association’s constitution, meeting minutes, correspondence, committee files, reports, financial records, contracts, membership records, photographs, scrapbooks, essay drafts, and printed materials. There are also files about special exhibitions and many of the sculptures, historic sites, and artists represented in Fairmount Park, and other items.

The collection’s arrangement was established either before or shortly after it was deposited with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1975. At that time, the records were organized into nineteen groups, which have now been formalized into numbered series, as detailed below. There is a significant amount of overlap between the series. For example, there is a specific series titled Photographs but there are also photographs spread throughout the collection.

List of series:

1. Artists - biographies of the artists with whom the association worked to put their work on display, arranged alphabetically (Boxes 1-19)

2. Books [including non-printed volumes] and other printed materials - pamphlets and clippings relating to different works of art, letter press books, minute books, and scrapbooks (Boxes 20-39)

3. Draft Essays for Sculpture of a City (Box 40)

4. Financial Records - arranged chronologically (Boxes 41-45a)

5. Fountain Competition and Correspondence (Box 46)

6. Philadelphia Fountain Society - arranged chronologically (Boxes 47-50)

7. General Correspondence - arranged chronologically (Boxes 51-52)

8. General Miscellaneous files (Boxes 53-67)

9. Historical sites and related files - arranged alphabetically (Boxes 68-69)

10. Letters concerning special exhibitions, etc. - chronologically arranged (Boxes 70-96)

11. Membership - arranged chronologically (Boxes 97-100)

12. Memorials - includes Ericcson, Price, and Shakespeare memorials, among others; arranged alphabetically (Boxes 101-110)

13. Receipts - arranged chronologically (Boxes 111-115)

14. Sculpture - mainly clippings, articles, photos (Box 116)

15. Sculpture exhibitions (Boxes 117-118)

16. Samuel Memorial:

a. General Files - arranged chronologically (Boxes 119-124)

b. Sculptors Associated with Samuel Memorial (Boxes 125-127)

17. Smith Memorial (Boxes 128-132)

18. Treasurer’s Office Files - includes monthly statements, information on different funds (Boxes 133-134)

19. Photographs - subdivided into Cities, General, and those used in Sculpture of a City (Boxes 136-150)

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2013

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use note

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Deposited by Fairmount Park Art Association, 1975.

Processing Information note

The creation of the electronic guide for this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources' "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.

Finding aid entered into the Archivists' Toolkit by Garrett Boos and Courtney Smerz.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Benjamin Franklin Parkway (Philadelphia, Pa.).
  • Fairmount Park Art Association.

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence.
  • Financial records.
  • Photographs.

Geographic Name(s)

  • Philadelphia (Pa.)

Subject(s)

  • City planning.
  • Public art.

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Collection Inventory

1. Artists   See also Samuel Memorial

Box
1 - 19
Box Folder

Adams, Herbert 

1 1-8

Amateis, Edmond 

1 9

Art-Deco 

1 10-11

Bacon, John the Elder 

1 12

Baerer, Henry 

1 13

Bailly, Joseph A. 

1 14

Bartlett, Paul W. 

2 1-5

Barye, Antonio, Louis 

2 6-9

Bashanellifusi, G.B. 

3 1

Baskin, Leonard 

3 1

Batchelder, Evelyn Beatrice Longman 

3 2

Beauchamp, Reginald 

3 2

Ben-Shmuel, Ahron 

3 3-4

Bertoia, Harry 

3 5

Bitter, Karl 

3 6-7

Blai, Boris 

3 8

Boyle, John J. 

3 9-12

Brenner, Bernard 

3 13

Brown, Joe 

3 13

Buberl, Caspar 

3 13

Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke 

3 14

Caffieri, Jean 

3 15

Calder, Alexander Milne 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   4 1-8
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   3 16-18

Calder, Alexander Stirling 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   5 1-5
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   4 9-10

Box Folder

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul 

5 6

Cemetery Taste 

5 7-8

Centennial 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   6 1-7
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   5 9-11

Box Folder

Ceracchi, Guiseppe 

7 1

Chapin, Cornelia 

7 1

Connelly, Pierce Francis 

7 1

Corey, McNeil 

7 2

Cret, Paul 

7 2

D'Angers, David 

7 3

Daley, William 

7 4

Dallin, Cyrus E. 

7 5-8

Davidson, Jo 

7 9-12

Delue, Donald 

7 13

Donato, Guiseppe 

7 13

Drake, Frederick 

7 14

Duveneck, Frank 

7 15

Eakins, Thomas 

7 16

Ellicott, Henry Jackson 

7 16

Elwell, Frank Edwin 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   8 1
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   7 17

Box Folder

Epstein, Sir Jacob 

8 2-7

Esherick, Wharton 

8 8

Eyre, Wilson 

8 9

Ezekial, Sir Moses 

8 10-11

Fenton, Beatrice 

8 12

Ferrari, Virginio 

9 1

Fiorelli and Battin 

9 2

Fitz-Gerald, Clark 

9 3

Flannagan, John 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   9 3
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   9 3a

Box Folder

Fraser, James Earle 

9 3a

Fremiet, Emmanuel 

9 4-12

French, Daniel Chester 

10 1-4, 8

French & Potter (USS GRANT) 

10 5-7

Frey, Erwin 

10 9

Frismuth, Harriet Whitney 

10 10

Furness, Frank 

10 11
Bin Folder

Gaul, August 

11 1
Box Folder

Geefs, Guillaume 

11 1

Godfrey, C. John 

11 2

Grafly, Charles 

11 3

Grand Fountain 

11 4

Greenberg, Joseph J. Jr 

11 5

Greenwood, Anthony 

11 5

Gregory, John 

11 6

Hancock, Walker 

11 7

Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, architects 

11 8

Headman, Henry D. 

11 8

Hecht, Edith L. 

11 9

Hodes, Natalie Lansing 

11 9

Hoffman, Edward Fenno III 

11 9

Houdon, Jean Antonio 

11 10-12

House, James Jr 

11 13

Hughes, Robert Ball 

11 13

Idusch and Son 

11 13

Ihlenfeld, Klaus 

11 14

Iselin, Lewis Jr 

11 14

Jaegers, Albert 

11 14

Jenkins, Frank Lynn 

11 15-18

Jennewein, (Carl) Paul 

11 19

Jones, Dexter 

11 20

Jonsson, Einar 

11 21-22

Jossett, Rauol 

12 1

Judson, Sylvia Shaw 

12 2-3

Keene, Paul 

12 4

Kelly, J. Wallace 

12 4

Kemeys, Edward 

12 5-7

Kemp, Alexander 

12 8

Kimmelman, Harold 

12 9

Kirn, Herman 

12 10

Kiss, August 

12 11

Kling, Vincent G., Architect 

12 12

Konti, Isidore 

12 13-14

Kretschman, E. A. 

12 15

Lachaise, Gaston 

12 16

Lacmer, John 

12 17

Laessle, Albert 

12 18

Lauck, Anthony J. 

12 19

Laurent, Robert 

12 19

Lazzarini, Francesco 

12 20

Lee, Bernard 

13 1

Legrand, Clodius and Sons 

13 1

Levy, Margaret Wasserman 

13 2

Lieberman, Neil 

13 2

Lindborg, Carl 

13 3

Lipchitz, Jacques 

13 4-4a

Lipkin, Jacob 

13 5

Lipton, Seymour 

13 6

Lowe, Maurice 

13 6

Mahoney, J. H. 

13 7

Maillol 

13 7

Maldarelli, Oronzio 

13 8

Manca, Albino 

13 9

Manger, Henrich Carl Johan 

13 10

Manship, Paul 

13 11-14

Marcks, Gerhard 

13 15-16

McKenzie, R. Tait 

13 17

McNeil, Herman A. 

14 1

Messina, Francesco 

14 2

Miller, George M. 

14 2

Milles, Carl 

14 3-4

Mitchell, Henry 

14 5-6

Moitz, Francis P. 

14 7

Monasterio, Luis Ortiz 

14 7

Moore, Henry 

14 8-9

Morse, Sidney H. 

14 10

Mozier, Joseph 

14 10

Murray, Samuel 

14 11

Nevelson, Louise 

14 12

Nivola, Constantine 

14 13

Onaga, Yoshimatsu 

14 14

Ornamental Ironwork, James Kirtland and Company 

14 15

Papashavilly, Georg 

14 15

Parks, Charles C. 

14 16

Pierce, Ron T. 

15 1

Pillz, Vincenz 

15 2

Pinto, Sarah Ruth 

15 2

Potter, Edward C. 

15 2

Raemisch, Waldemar 

15 3

Rapaport, Nathan 

15 4

Raul, Harry Lewis 

15 4

Reder, Bernard 

15 5

Reilly Memorial 

15 6

Remington, Frederic 

15 7-11

Rhind, John Massey 

15 12-14

Rinehart, William Henry 

15 15

Rivera, Jose de 

15 15

Rodin, Auguste 

15 16

Rogers, John 

15 17

Rogers, Randolph 

15 18-21

Romanelli, Pasquale 

16 1

Romanelli, Raffaelo 

16 1

Rosin, Harry 

16 2

Rudy, Charles 

16 2

Rui, Victor 

16 2

Rush, William 

16 3-8

Sabatini, Raphael 

16 9

Sabatino, Felix 

16 9

Sailor, Samuel H. 

16 9

Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 

16 12

Samuel Memorial - pictures only 

16 13-15

Sardeau, Helene 

17 1

Schweizer, J. Otto 

17 2-3

Serber, Frances 

17 4

Siemering, Rudolph 

17 5-9

Stauch, Edward 

17 10

Steinhauser, Carl 

17 11

Stevens, Lawrence Tenny 

17 12

Stonorov, Oskar 

17 13

Sugarman, George 

17 16

Tacca, Pietro 

17 16

Talcot, Dudley 

17 17

Tarr, H. S. 

17 17

Thom, James 

17 18-19

Thouron, Henry 

18 1

Traquair, James 

18 1

Trumbauer, Borie, and Zantzinger, architects 

18 1

Untenberger, Christopher 

18 2-3

Utescher, Gerd 

18 4

Vonnoh, Bessie Potter 

18 15

Walter, Thomas Ustick 

18 5

Ward, John Quincy Adams 

18 15

Warneke, Heinz 


    Box Folder
Mixed materials   19 1-2
    Box Folder
Mixed materials   18 6-14

Box Folder

Waugh, Sidney 

19 3

Weinman, Adolph Alexander 

19 4

Whellock, Warren 

19 5

Whitmore, James A. 

19 5a

Wilson, Joseph 

19 6

Winter, Sherl Joseph 

19 6

Witherspoon Building 

19 7

Wolff, Albert 

19 8-9

Wolff, Wilhelm 

19 10

Wright, J. 

19 11

Zorach, William 

19 12

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2. Books 

Box
20-39
Box

Annual Reports, 1-50 

20

Annual Reports, 51-100 

21

Booklets: The Arts 

22

Booklets: Art Association - Charters and By-Laws 

22

Booklets: Charter and By-Laws of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 

22

Booklets: Charter of The Fairmount Park Art Association 

22

Booklets: Commissioner's Report of the Fairmount Park Art Association 1940, 1947-1958 

22

Booklets: Fountain Society 

22

Booklets: Garfield Memorial undated 

22

Booklets: Independence Hall undated 

22

Booklets: Interstate-Federal Compact undated 

22

Booklets: Meade Statue undated 

22

Booklets: Report of the Commission of the Fairmount Park Art Association undated 

22

Booklets: Thiebaut Feres undated 

22

Booklets: Woman's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1921-1934 

22

Clippings 1900-1913 

23

Clippings 1913-1926 

24

Committees - minutes 1872-1888 

24

Constitution of the Fairmount Park Art Association - Members 1871-1886 

24

Charles Cohen Scrapbook in dinner invitation March 30, 1903 

24

Ericsson Memorial: minutes 1898-1900, 1911 

25

Ericsson Memorial: clippings 1900-1904 

25

Ericsson Memorial: scrapbook 1919-1920, 1920-1926 

25

Grant Memorial: minutes 1898-1900 

26

Grant Memorial: scrapbook 1898-1899 

26

Letter press books: vol. 1 1896-1897 

27

Letter press books: vol. 2 1897-1898 

27

Letter press books: vol. 3 1898-1899 

27

Letter press books April 20-June 9, 1899 

28

Letter press books June 12-December 28, 1899 

28

Letter press books December 29, 1899-March 21, 1900 

28

Letter press books March 21-December 1900 

28

Letter press books December 1900-October 8, 1902 

29

Letter press books October 8, 1902-October 30, 1902 

29

Letter press books: Fairmount Park Art Association Constitution books - membership books, 2 empty 1877, 1872-1901 

29

Secretary letterpress books 1899-1902 

30

Secretary letterpress books 1902-1909 

31

Secretary letterpress books 1909-1915 

32

Fairmount Park Art Association Committee on Works of Art, minutes 1902-1914 

32

Secretary letterpress books 1915-1920 

33

McKinley Memorial: Dedication exercises (printed) undated 

34

McKinley Memorial: letterbook (2 volumes) 1901-1909 

34

McKinley Memorial: minutes 1901-1908, 1920 

34

McKinley Memorial: scrapbook 1901-1908 

34

Minutes of Committee on Design 1901-1907 

35

Committee on Design scrapbook 1901-1903 

35

Minutes of Board of Trustees 1913-1917 

35

Morris, Robert - scrapbook 1923 

36

Morris, Robert: ceremonies (printed) undated 

36

Philadelphia Fountain Society letterbook 1870-1871, 1902-1905 

36

Samuel commonplace book 1913-1918 

36

Smith, minutes (2 volumes) 1898-1902 

36

Smith, minutes (3 volumes) 1902-1912, 1897-1898 

37

Miscellaneous books: scrapbook - Organizations Allied for the Acquisition of a Comprehensive Park System 1904 

37

Miscellaneous books: letterbook 1893-1896 

38

Progress Reports: Centennial Publication 1970-1971 

38

Scrapbook (invitations) 1878-1914 

39

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3. Draft Essays for Sculpture of a City 

Scope and Contents note

Essays about artist's work, edited by Nicholas Wainwright, former director of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Box
40
Box Folder

Glen Benge 

40 1

Victoria Donahoe 

40 2-3
Drawer Box Folder

George Gurney 

4 40 4
Box Folder

Michael Richman 

40 5-9

David Sellin 

40 10-12

Lewis Sharp 

40 13

John Tancock 

40 14

George Thomas 

40 15-16

Miscellaneous essays 

40 17-18

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4. Financial Records 

Box
41-45a

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5. Fountain Competition and Correspondence 

Box
46

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6. Philadelphia Fountain Society 

Box
47-50

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7. General Correspondence 

Box
51-52

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8. General Miscellaneous Files 

Box
53-67
Box Folder

Additions and Deletions - Prefaces and Acknowledgements 

53 1

Ambuscade: correspondence, etc 1874 

53 2

American Philosophical Society - photo of Franklin, correspondence regarding annual reports 1907-1908 

53 2

Art Alliance - correspondence 1928-1936 

53 3-13

Art Commission: Biennial Report 

53 14-15

Art Commission: Board of License and Inspection Review 

53 16

Art Commission: Charter and Regulations 

53 17-18

Art Commission: Eastwick Redevelopment 

53 19

Art Commission: New Museum Plaza 

54 1

Art Commission: statues and memorials 

54 2

Art Jury: letters and minutes 1912-1913, 1916-1920 

54 3-6

Artists Equity 

54 7

Artists Unknown: African Figures 

54 8

Artists Unknown: Christopher Columbus 

54 9

Artists Unknown: Drunken Satyr 

54 11

Artists Unknown: Keim Tomb 

54 11

Artists Unknown: Lippencott 

54 14

Artists Unknown: Nandi 

54 15

Artists Unknown: Bishop Matthew Simpson 

54 15

Artists Unknown: St. George and the Dragon 

54 16

Artists Unknown: Totem Pole 

54 17

Artists Unknown: Washington, etc. 

54 18

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Bernie Cleff 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Glen Benge 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Wayne Craven 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Anne d'Harnoncourt 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Victoria Donahoe 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: John Dryfhout 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: George Gurney 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: R. Sturgis Ingersoll 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: George Krause 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Seymour Mednick 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Michael Richman 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Charles C. Sellers 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: David Sellin 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Lewis Sharp 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: John Tancock 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: George Thomas 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Dennis W. Weeks 

55 1

Sculpture of a City: Author's Biographies: Murray Weiss 

55 2

Author's correspondence: H. Howard Arnanson undated 

55 3

Author's correspondence: Glen Benge 

55 4
Box Drawer

Author's correspondence: Wayne Craven 

55 5
Box Folder

Author's correspondence: Victoria Donahoe 

55 6

Author's correspondence: John Dryfhout, George Gurney 

55 7-8

Author's correspondence: R. Sturgis Ingersoll 

55 9

Author's correspondence: Michael Richman 

55 10

Author's correspondence: Anne d'Harnoncourt Rishel 

55 11

Author's correspondence: Brian Robertson 

55 12

Author's correspondence: Charles C. Sells 

55 13

Author's correspondence: David Sellin 

55 14-15

Author's correspondence: Lewis Sharp 

55 16

Author's correspondence: John Tancock 

55 17

Author's correspondence: George Thomas 

55 17a

Author's releases 

55 18

Benjamin Franklin Parkway Plan: correspondence 1903-1904, 1907, 1913, 1915-1921, 1953-1969 

55 19-23

Bequest - Dauner 1969 and others 

55 24

Bibliography - appendix - 2 cubic feet with photocopies of pamphlets 

55 25-26

Bibliography 

56 1

Bicentennial 

56 2

Board of Trustees correspondence (a few items not Board of Trustees) 1907-1908, 1945, 1956 

56 3-4

Book on Philadelphia Sculpture (Centennial Publication) editorial comments - correspondence, reports 1970-1972 

56 5-10

Book outlines for Fountain Society 1971-1974 

56 11-14

Borie, C.L. Jr., correspondence 

56 15

Card file 

56 16

City architecture - photocopies of articles 

56 17

City Planning Commission - Schuylkill River Park Development - plans 1967 

56 18

Chalk and His Friends (also  the Ambuscade) 1874 

57 1

Committees - 1900-1911, 1924-1929: Revisions of charters and by-laws 1905-1908 

57 2-11
Box Drawer

Committees: minutes and correspondence (a lot of material on Smith Memorial) 1900-1911, 1924-1929, 1905-1908 

57 2-11
Box Folder

Correspondence - general - Carolyn Pitts: Incoming Information Requests 1971-1973 

57 12-14

Correspondence - general - Carolyn Pitts: Lipsey memos 1971-1973 

57 15

Correspondence - general - Carolyn Pitts: John Mass 1971-1973 

57 16

Correspondence - general - Carolyn Pitts: Outgoing Information Requests 1971-1973 

57 17

Correspondence - general - Carolyn Pitts: Pending 1971-1973 

57 18

Edited material undated 

58 1-2

Eighteenth (18th) and Poplar undated 

58 3

Epstein Sculpture - Social Consciousness, at Samuel Memorial, inscription on 1955-1972 

58 4

Fairmount Park Art Association: annual reports, inventory 1971 

58 5

Fairmount Park Art Association: book outlines - see under book outlines 

58 6-9

Fairmount Park Art Association: Board of Trustees minutes with some miscellaneous correspondence 1966-1968 

58 10-13

Fairmount Park Art Association: correspondence - Matieson, Aitken and Company, CPA, with audits 1946-1954 

58 14

Fairmount Park Art Association: financial statements - correspondence, bills, etc. 1872-1878, 1894-1900, 1903, 1904-1907, 1918-1919 

58 15-18

Fairmount Park Art Association: general correspondence - Henri Marceau, secretary 1940-1950, 1952-1953, 1956-1959 

59 1, 3-11

Fairmount Park Art Association: general correspondence: art work 1923-1927 

59 2

Fairmount Park Art Association: general correspondence: with Ingersoll 1951-1961 

59 12

Fairmount Park Art Association: general correspondence: with Leslie Miller 1907-1908 

59 13

Fairmount Park Art Association: general correspondence: sculpture approximately 1898-1902, 1904-1909 

59 14-17

Fairmount Park Art Association: history undated 

59 18-19

Fairmount Park Art Association: location of sculpture - Lioness and cubs correspondence regarding permanent fund undated 

59 20

Fairmount Park Art Association: membership 1904-1905 

59 21

Fairmount Park Art Association: minutes 1894, 1897-1898 

60 1-2

Fairmount Park Art Association: minutes and reports (annual meeting/Board of Trustees reports) 1900, 1906 

60 3-4

Fairmount Park Art Association: minutes (1913-1916, 1920 unarranged Board of Trustees) 1900, 1905-1906, 1909-1911, 1913-1916, 1920, 1922-1924, 1925-1927, 1940-1949, 1951-1956, 1969-1973 

60 5-21

Fairmount Park Art Association: miscellaneous information undated 

61 1

Fairmount Park Art Association: office supplies for centennial publications undated 

61 2

Fairmount Park Art Association: Sculpture publication, correspondence (1972-1973 with Joanne Greenspun) 1968, 1972-1973 

61 3-4

Fairmount Park Art Association: Sculpture Publications contracts 1971-1972 

61 5-6

Fairmount Park Art Association: Treasurer Committee reports (miscellaneous) 1913-1914 

61 7-9

Fairmount Park Art Association: Works of Art [Committee], miscellaneous correspondence 1905-1907 

61 10-13

Federal Reserve Bank and German Society of Pennsylvania, correspondence with Carolyn Pitts 

61 14

Fountains for Save Outdoor Sculpture 

61 15

Funds - Remerger of various memorial funds 

61 16

Funds - Report and Correspondence of Finance Committees 1937, 1940, 1947-1949 

61 17

Grant Cabin, correspondence 1903-1923 

62 1

Greber, Jacques - speeches, correspondence, photos of party and parkway 1961-1962 

62 2

Hamlet and Ophelia (painting) file 1894-1916 

62 3

Hancock Fund (and Lafayette Fund) and other financial correspondence 1915-1916, 1931, 1943, 1949 

62 4-5

Hirshorn Collection clipping 

62 6

Historical Preservation (national), clippings, photo, article 

62 7-8

Historical Society of Pennsylvania correspondence 1972 

62 9

Investment fund 

62 10

James Logan Memorial (unsorted) 1923-1925, 1933, 1935, 1937-1941, 1965-1966 

62 11-14

Japanese House, correspondence 1957-1958 

62 15

Japanese Temple, correspondence and blue prints 1905-1918 

62 16-18

Japanese Temple Gate 

62 19

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, Aetna insurance forms 

62 20

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, agreements 

62 21

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, correspondence 1961, 1965-1966, 1967 

62 22-23

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain January and February 1968 

62 24

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, correspondence March-December 1968, 1969 

63 1-4

John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, designs 

63 5
Box

Conditions and Specifications: Fountain for John F. Kennedy Plaza 

63

Fountains in Contemporary Architecture 

63
Box Folder

Committee on Location of Sculpture (much of Jean D'Arc) 1937-1938, 1941-1956, 1964, 1968-1969 

63 6-9

Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis (with Athenaeum for Pitts[burgh]) 1903-1904 

63 10

Mailol Sculpture - effort to purchase 1967 

63 11

Sam Maitin correspondence 

63 12

Memorial Hall Sculpture (Centennial exhibition): interior hall (photos) 

63 13

Memorial Hall Sculpture (Centennial exhibition): Danaids 

63 14

Memorial tablets: Childs-Drexel correspondence 1902-1929 

63 15-16

Memorial tablets: Elkins 1911, 1 item/1926 - Passyunk tablet (4 items) 1911, 1926 

64 1

Memorial tablets: Thomas Holme - correspondence and papers 1924 

64 2
Box Drawer

Memorial tablets: Schwartzman (1918 item - no connection) 1914-1915 

64 3
Box Folder

Missing Dimensions - work sheets 

64 4-7

Model of Lincoln's face and hands, [letter] and photograph 1905 

64 8

Newspaper clippings - mostly re centennial of [Fairmount Park Art Association] 1972 

64 9-10

Orianna Street South - Carpenters Hall - acquisition and development: Letters 1910-1911 

64 11-16, 19

Orianna Street South - Carpenters Hall - acquisition and development: miscellaneous material 

64 17-18

Orianna Street South - Carpenters Hall - acquisition and development: memorial plaque 1911-1914 

64 11-16, 19

Orianna Street South - Carpenters Hall - acquisition and development: improvement of lot 

64 11-16, 19

Orianna Street plaque 

65 1-4

Paid photograph requests 1971-1973 

65 5-6

Philadelphia Museum of Art: correspondence, clippings, 61 photographs 1914-1915 

65 7

Photographs - credits [Fountain Society] 

65 8-10

Photograph requests - outgoing [Fountain Society] 1971-1973 

65 11-14

Photographs still needed [Fountain Society] 

65 16

Photographers - correspondence: Bernie Cleff [Fountain Society] 

65 17

Photographers - correspondence: Edward Gallob and Tana Hoban [Fountain Society] 

65 18

Photographers - correspondence: George Kraus [Fountain Society] 

65 19

Photographers - correspondence: Seymour Mednick [Fountain Society] 

65 20

Photographers - correspondence: Dennis Weeks [Fountain Society] 

65 21

Photographers - correspondence: Murray Weiss [Fountain Society] 

65 15

Photography assignments [Fountain Society] 

65 22

Pieces not being used - artists unknown, photographs [Fountain Society] 

65 23

Plaques and tablets - photographs 

65 25

Playgrounds - tot lots 1970-1972 

65 24

Pre-publication, Fairmount Park Art Association brochure - lists of sculptures, etc. 1968-1969 

65 26

Proposed Purchase - Wind and Spray - Celleoni proposal 1917, 1920 

66 1

Proposed works of art for purchase 1891-1898, 1903, 1907, 1909, 1914-1915, 1920 

66 2-4

Publication: Penn State University Press 

66 5-6
Box

Rebecca Darby Smith Fountain - correspondence, photographs 1895-1934 

66
Box Folder

Redevelopment Authority brochures, status lists, some [Carolyn] Pitts correspondence 

66 7-9

Reproduction rights 

66 10-12

Resolutions: 1969 (minutes of Board of Trustees), 1967 - correspondence regarding resolutions 1969, 1967 

66 13
Box Drawer

Resolutions: Fairmount Park Art Association 

66 14
Box Folder

Resolutions: regarding Sales of Securities - correspondence and papers 1934-1949 

66 15

St. Andrew's Society and U. S. Courthouse 

66 16

Sculpture Book - outlines, articles, miscellaneous 

66 17-18

Sculpture: exhibit catalog, compilation 

66 19

Sculpture: photos [Fountain Society] 1951-1953, 1961 

66 20

Silenus and Infant Bacchus, photo, clipping 

67 1

Submitted book material - Evan Turner [Fountain Society] 

67 2-3

Swan Fountain, correspondence and papers 1890, 1892, 1899, 1903, 1904, 1916-1922 

67 4-9

Tatum - estate of Sarah Tatum 1953 

67 10

Two Fountains: copies of Rond Point, Champs Elysee, Paris, France undated 

67 11

Vie[w]s of Pompeii (painting), notes 

67 12

Walker publications, correspondence 

67 13

Weld Coxe - ed[itorial] committee correspondence 1971-1972 

67 14-15

Women's Committee: Rittenhouse Square Flower Booth and Fund Raising 1970 

67 20

Women's Committee: Rittenhouse Square Flower Booth 1966-1967 

67 16-17

Women's Committee: Phantom Lecture-Flower booth 1971 

67 18

Women's Committee: Flower Booth 1968, 1969 

67 19

Works of Art in Fairmount Park: work papers 

67 21

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9. Historical Sites and Related Material 

Box
68-69
Box Folder

Citizen's Council on City Planning, membership notices, etc. 1945-1969 

68 1

City Parks Association (2 items) 1936, 1938 

68 2

Committee on City Planning, correspondence 1935-1951 

68 3

Thomas Eakins House 1968-1972 

68 4

59th Street Baptist Church 1970-1971 

68 5

Floodlighting the Art Museum and the Rodin Museum, with blue-prints 1957-1969 

68 6

Floodlighting the Benjamin Franklin Parkway 1957-1963 

68 7-8

Floodlighting Christ Church Tower 1964-1965 

68 9

Floodlighting the Old Aquarium / Remington ["Cowboy" sculpture] 1972 

68 10

Floodlighting the Smith Memorial 1951, 1969 

68 11

Floodlighting the Washington Fountain (E.K. Price Memorial duplicate of Ericsson) 1956-1957 

68 12

Fountains pamphlet 

68 13

Glendinning Rock Garden, photographs 

68 14

Independence Hall Association, correspondence 1942-1956 

68 15-16

Thomas Jefferson Memorial, letter, 2 photographs 1965 

68 17

Liberty Bell, relocation 1972 

68 18

Masonic Hall, correspondence for Fountain Society 

68 19

Robert Moses, correspondence with 1935-1938 

68 20

Museum of Modern Art Travelling Exhibition: Architecture of a City Plan 1951 

68 21

National Trust for Historic Preservation, membership correspondence 1953 

68 22

Thomas Paine Memorial, correspondence 1942 

68 23

Pasteur Fund, University of Pennsylvania 1923, 1937 

68 24

"Powell House," Carpenters Hall / grant / Oriana St. 1910, 1937-1951 

68 25

Powel House, a few items 1961-1963 

68 26

Public Ledger Building: photos of prints, photocopies of articles 

69 27

Rittenhouse Square, regarding urns mostly, correspondence, plans, photos 

69 1

Women's Committee of Fairmount Park Art Association, correspondence, bills, etc. 1950, 1958-1969 

69 2

Schuylkill River Planting Study of Expressway and river, with plan 1963 

69 3

Spanish Cannon 1899, 1903-1917 

69 4-5

Letitia Street House, one letter 1956 

69 6

Union Baptist Church, regarding grant money 1970-1972 

69 7

Vine Street Development, plans and booklets 

69 8

Washington Square, correspondence (improvement) and plans 1952-1961 

69 9-14

War Memorials, clipping 

69 15

Woodmere Art Gallery, correspondence, wills, minutes, etc. 1938-1943 

69 16

Zoo Sculpture and 2 letters regarding zoo benefactors 1958-1959 

69 17

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10. Letters Concerning Special Exhibitions, Etc. 

Box
70-96

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11. Membership 

Box
97-100

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12. Memorials 

Box
101-110
Box

Ericsson Memorial 

101-102

Grant Memorial Cabin 

102

Harrison Memorial 

102, 103

Howell, Charles H 

103

McKinley Memorial 

104-107

Morris Memorial 

107

Price Memorial 

108

(St. Gaudens) Garfield Memorial 

109

Shakespeare Memorial 

110

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13. Receipts 

Box
111-115

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14. Sculpture 

Box
116
Box Folder

City sculpture, clippings (photocopies of articles) 

116 1-2

Drexel University sculpture with Pitts archivist, but not [Fountain Society], and photos 1972 

116 3-4

Fairmount Park Art Association Art Alliance, sculpture in the open air, correspondence 1923-1928 

116 6-8

Girard College sculpture, [Fountain Society], photos 1972 

116 9

Nineteenth (19th) century sculpture symposium with Pitts, but not [Fountain Society] April 14, 1972 

116 10

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, sculpture 1972 

116 11-12

Playground sculpture, not used in public 

116 13

American Indian, photocopies of articles 

116 14

Sculpture exhibitions, miscellaneous 1926-1961 

116 14

Royal Society of Arts, articles 1966 

116 16

Sculpture International, correspondence and photographs 1933, 1940, 1949 

116 17-19

Sculpture, lost, unidentified, destroyed 

116 20

Temple University, sculpture 

116 21

University Museum sculpture, with photographs 

116 22

University of Pennsylvania, preliminary outlines for sculpture 

116 23

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15. Sculpture Exhibitions 

Scope and Contents note

1933 Correspondence (see Series Letters concerning special exhibitions, etc., chronologically arranged).

Box
117-118

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16. Samuel Memorial 

Box
119-127

General 

Box
119-126
Box

Correspondence 1913-1960 

119-121

Exhibition correspondence 1940-1941 

119
Box Folder

Paul A. Cret files: Contract with revisions 

121 3

Paul A. Cret files: correspondence 1931-1940 

121 4-7

Paul A. Cret files: payments; See also: Treasurer's Office Files 1931-1937 

121 8

Applications for sculptors 1914-1916, 1929, 1932-1933, 1947 

121 9-12

Committee on Selection 1940, 1949, 1950-1951 

121 13

Contracts, extra copies 

121 13

Contracts, payments, exhibitions - Seeler and Grafley 1914-1917 

121 14-16
Box Drawer

Dedication 1961 

121 17
Box Folder

Drawing and diagrams 

121 18-19

George A. Fuller, company, Contractor 1932-1933 

122 1-3

Gardner file (Thomas Galante) Landscaping engineer (maintenance); Samuel N. Baxtor 1962-1969, 1939-1940 

122 4-5

General material 1950-1969 

122 6-9

Historical data: maintenance, plans, histories, will, sculpture international, and clipping 

122 10

Ingersoll correspondence 1943-1953 

122 11-12

Ingersoll essay 

122 13

Inscriptions for sculpture 

122 14

Insurance 1954-1960 

122 15-17

Landscaping (Henkles and McCoy) 

123 1

Legal and financial 1913-1933, 1949 

123 2-6

Membership correspondence 1943-1956 

123 7-9

Minutes of committee meetings 

123 10

Newspaper clippings 

123 10a

Office supplies and bills 1956-1959 

123 11-13

Papers [will of Ellen Phillips Samuel] 

123 14-15

Parking lot 

123 16

Planting (Henkles and McCoy) 1958-1961 

124 1-3

Receipts of bills 

124 4-5

Repairs 1966-1969 

124 6-8

Sample contracts 

124 9

Samuel Committee correspondence 

124 10

J. Bunford Samuel correspondence 1913-1948 

124 10a-12

Sculptors contacted 1949 

124 13-14

Signed contracts 

124 15

Terraces and Fountains 

124 16
Box

Zantzinger correspondence 

124

Sculptors Associated with the Samuel Memorial 

Box
125-127

Ahron Ben-Shmuel 


    Box Folder
Text   127 6
    Box Folder
Text   125 1

Hose de Creeft 


    Box Folder
Text   125 2-3
    Box Folder
Text   127 7

Koren der Hootian 


    Box Folder
Text   127 8
    Box Folder
Text   125 4-5

Jacob Epstein 


    Box Folder
Text   125 6-8
    Box Folder
Text   127 9

Box Folder

John Flannagan 

125 9

Erwin Frey 


    Box Folder
Text   127 10
    Box Folder
Text   125 10-11

Box Folder

John Harbeson 

125 12

J. Wallace Kelly 

125 13

Albert Kelsey 

125 14

Henry Kreis 


    Box Folder
Text   127 11
    Box Folder
Text   125 15-16

Box Folder

Gaston Lachaise 

125 17

Robert Laurent 

126 1-2

Jacques Lipchitz 


    Box Folder
Text   126 3-6
    Box Folder
Text   127 12

Box Folder

Oronzio Maldarelli 

126 7

Gerhard Marchs 

127 13

Carl Milles 

126 8

Waldemar Raemisch 


    Box Folder
Text   127 14
    Box Folder
Text   126 9-10

Box Folder

Harry Rosin 

126 11-12

Helene Sardeau 

126 13-14

Maurise Sterne 


    Box Folder
Text   127 15
    Box Folder
Text   126 15-17

Box Folder

Heinze Warneke 

127 1-2, 16

Wheeler Williams 

127 3-5, 17-18

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17. Smith Memorial 

Box
128-132

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18. Treasurer's Office Files 

Box
133-134
Box Folder

Brandon Barringer -Pennsylvania Company 1938-1940 

133 1

Childs-Drexel Memorial Fund 1929, 1935-1937 

133 2

Ericsson Memorial 1932-1934 

133 3
Bin Folder

Finance Committee (Henri Marceau, Secretary) with Samuel's will 1937 

133 4
Box Folder

Harrison Memorial Fund 1928-1939 

133 5

Edward I. Howell Estate 1932-1939 

133 6

John F. Hunneker Estate 1933-1939 

133 7

Joseph F. Kass mortgage 1932-1939 

133 8

Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery (accountants) Samuels Fund account 1929-1933 

133 9-10

James Logan Fund 1938-1939 

133 11

Henri Marceau (correspondence), executive secretary regarding bills 1937-1939 

133 12-14

McKinley Memorial - 1933 (3 items); 1909 (dedication exercises) 1933, 1909 

133 15

Miscellaneous - Board of Trustees minutes, bills, Samuels Fund 1933-1940 

133 16-21

Elizabeth R. Moulton estate and will 1933, 1939 

134 4

Monthly reports, Pennsylvania Company 1929-1936 

134 5-11

Monthly statements - Samuels Fund 1938-1939 

134 12

Monthly Statements, general funds, parks and cities 1936-1939 

134 13

Pennsylvania Company: reports on [Galancis], acknowledg[ed] receipt of deposits 1933-1936 

134 14-16

Pennsylvania Company: Quarterly Reports 1931-1938 

134 17-18

Ellen Phillips Samuel files, bills and receipts 1931-1938 

134 19-20

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19. Photographs 

Box
135-150

Cities 

Box Folder

Charleston, South Carolina 

135 1

Chicago, Illinois 

135 2

Havana, Cuba 

135 3

Milwaukee, Minnesota [sic]; New York, New York 

135 4

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

135 5

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

135 6

Tokyo, Japan 

135 6

Toronto, Canada 

135 6

Washington, D. C. 

135 6
Box Drawer

Unidentified 

135 7

General 

Box Folder

Correspondence 

135 8
Box

75th annual meeting - Marceau's talk 

136-150

Colonial Williamsburg 

Construction - Eli Kirk Price fountain 

Correspondence 

Kollwitz statues 

Correspondence 

Miscellaneous 

Negatives - Delaware River Basin project 

Photographs of location of proposed fountain at terminus of the Parkway 

People 

Presentation ceremony at Carpenters Halls 

Samuel Memorial 

Society Hall, and the photographic dry plates which are in a separate box 

Sculptors whose works are included in Sculpture of a City, published by the Fairmount Park Art Association 

Box

Art-Deco 

136-151

Bacon, John the Elder 

Bailly, Joseph A 

Bartlett, Paul W 

Baskin, Leonard 

Battin, John Jr 

Bertoia, Harry 

Birch, William 

Bitter, Karl 

Bottiau, Alfred 

Boyle, John J 

Bush-Brown, Henry Kirke 

Cain, Auguste 

Calder, Alexander Milne 

Calder, Alexander Stirling 

Centennial exhibition 

Ceracchi, Guiseppe 

Cohan, Katherine M 

Connelly, Pierce Francis 

de Rivera, Hose 

Donato, Giuseppe 

Drake, Frederick 

Elwell, Frank Edwin 

Ezekiel, Moses 

Federal Reserve Bank 

Fenton, Beatrice 

Fidelity Building 

Franklin Institute 

French, Daniel Chester 

Fremiet, Emmanuel 

Furness, Frank 

Gaul, August 

Geefs, Guillaume 

Greenberg, Joseph Jr 

Gregory, John 

Hancock, Walker 

Headman, Henry 

Houdon, Jean 

Jaegers, Albert 

Jennewein, Carl Paul 

Kemp, Alexander 

Kemeys, Edward 

Kimmelman, Henry 

Kirn, Herman 

Kiss, August 

Lachaise, Gaston 

Laessle, Albert 

Laurel Hill Cemetery 

Lazzarini, Francesco 

Legrand, Clodius and sons 

Lipton, Seymour 

MacNeil, Hamon 

Manship, Paul 

Marcks, Gerhard 

Marsicano, and Serber 

McKenzie, R. Tait 

Milles, Carl 

Mitchell, Henry 

Moore, Henry 

Mozier, Joseph 

Murray, Samuel 

Nevelson, Louise 

Nivola, Constantino 

N.W. Ayer and Son 

Park, R.H 

Pinto, Sarah Ruth 

Raemisch, Waldemar 

Remington, Frederic 

Rhind, John Massey 

Roberts, Howard 

Rodgers, John 

Rodin, Auguste 

Rogers, Randolph 

Sailor, Samuel H 

Rush, John 

Rush, William 

St. Gaudens, Augustus 

Schweizer, J. Otto 

Schuylkill Navy Yard 

Siemering, Rudoph 

Smith Memorial 

Stauch, Edward 

Steinhauser, Carl Johann 

Story, William Wetmore 

Sugarman, George 

Tarr, H.S 

Thom, James 

Unknown artists 

Utexcher, Gerd 

Warneke, Heinz 

Waugh, Sidney 

Weinman, Adoph Alexander 

Wolff, Albert 

Zorach, William 

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