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Fairmount Park Art Association. Archives, 1871-1972.

Title: Archives, 1871-1972.

These archives are the result of several different methods of record keeping and represent only the files of certain officers. Other records were presumably retained by the other principals. General Correspondence: Secretary/Executive Secretary letterpress books, 1893-1896, 1898-1920, and loose correspondence, 1872-1933, 1972, composed of a chronological file and a topical file. This material relates to membership, meetings, finances and other general business as well as specific concerns and projects such as Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Carpenters Hall lot improvement, Japanese Temple--Gate, Sculpture in the Open Air Exhibit, Wilson Cary Swan Memorial Fountain, and Woodmere Art Gallery. Minutes, contracts, clippings, bills, receipts, and photographs are occasionally to be found in these general files. Most of the correspondence relating to specific sculptures will be found in subsequent series. Board of Trustees minutes, 1894-1873. Treasurer's Office: Correspondence, 1929-1940, 1948-1961; bills and receipts, 1871-1929, 1941-1965; bank statements, cancelled checks, etc., ca. 1918-ca. 1932; scattered treasurers' reports and accountants' audits. Additional bills, receipts, and financial correspondence may be found in other series. Standing Committees: Committee on City Planning correspondence, 1935-1951; Committee on Finances, Legacies, and Trusts correspondence and reports, 1937-1949; Committee on Location of Sculpture correspondence, 1937-1969; Committee on Works of Art correspondence and minutes, 1902-1914; Women's Committee of FPAA correspondence, 1958-1971, with some financial papers. Also included in this section are Charles J. Cohen letterpress books and correspondence relating to Cohen's activities with Committees on Auditing, Finances, Works of Art, and others. Special Committees and Projects: Revision of Charter and By-laws, 1905-1908; Capt. John Ericsson Memorial, James A. Garfield Memorial, Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, H. Morris Harrison Memorial, Charles H. Howell Memorial, John F. Kennedy Plaza Fountain, William McKinley Memorial, Robert Morris Memorial, Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial (including the three International Sculpture Exhibitions, 1933, 1940, 1949, held in conjuction with the Samuel Memorial, Shakespeare Memorial, Richard Smith Memorial). The above contain a variety of correspondence, minutes, accounts, and other papers relating to the projects. Sculpture of A City: To commemorate its centennial, the FPAA published Sculpture of a City in 1974, a study of Philadelphia public sculpture. The research files compiled for the book, arranged according to sculptor, contain correspondence with the artist, correspondence of FPAA board members and others, minutes, contracts, Sculpture of a City research notes, letters, clippings, drafts of articles, photographs, and material relevant to the sculpture. Additional publication files include more correspondence, authors and photographers biographies, book outlines, contracts, photographs, and other business papers. Miscellaneous records: Scrapbooks, 1900-1926, annual reports, photographs, pamphlets. Philadelphia Fountain Society Records, given to FPAA, 1972: Letterpress book, 1870-1871, 1902-1905; loose correspondence, 1883-1942, particularly concerning the Rebecca Darby Smith Fountain; minute books, 1869-1885, 1891-1916; bills and receipts, 1887-1941; and miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 56 linear ft.

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Fairmount Park Art Association. Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1904.

Title: Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1904.

These two letters acknowledge Furness's contributions to the Shakespeare Memorial project of the Fairmount Park Art Association in Philadelphia, Pa.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

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Fairmount Park Art Association. Correspondence : with Paul Philippe Cret, 1907.

Title: Correspondence : with Paul Philippe Cret, 1907.

Correspondence with Leslie W. Miller concerns the Philadelphia Parkway, Work No. 38, now known as the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves)

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Fairmount Park Art Association. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1887.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1887.

Printed invitation to the unveiling of a statue of General George Gordon Meade, October 18, 1887, response to be sent to John P. Nicholson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905188 View

Fairmount Park Art Association. Letter, 1941, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1941, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Roland L. Taylor, President, Fairmount Park Art Association.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

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Oral history interview with Thomas Chimes

Title: Oral history interview with Thomas Chimes

An interview of Thomas Chimes conducted 1990 June 14, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project. Chimes speaks about his Greek background, his childhood in Philadelphia and in several southern states, studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Students League, New York in the 1940's including a comparison of the two institutions and a discussion of the New York City art scene; teaching at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), and Moore College of Art in Philadelphia; the development of his painting and sculpture including the religious paintings of the 1960's, the metal boxes, and the transition to the portraits of the 1970's and 1980's based on his readings and interest in Alfred Jarry and Marcel Duchamp; and "Sleeping Woman" commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association.

OralHistoryResource: Sound recording 3 sound cassettes.Transcript 123 p.

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Helen Farr Sloan, Philadelphia Inquirer, notebooks, 1886–1896

Title: Helen Farr Sloan notebooks Philadelphia Inquirer 1886–1896

The Helen Farr Sloan notebooks consist of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art, encompassing the early years of John Sloan’s career in Philadelphia, and include a separately-organized group of materials from the same period about the Drexel family and publisher George W. Childs. Philadelphia Inquirer

ArchivalResource: 5.3 linear feet; (14 volumes in 5 record center boxes and 1 manuscript box)

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Sloan, Helen Farr, 1911-2005. Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks. 1886-1896.

Title: Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks. 1886-1896.

The Helen Farr Sloan Philadelphia Inquirer notebooks consists of fourteen binders of Philadelphia-area news clippings broadly related to the subject of art. Materials date from 1886 to 1896, encompassing the early years of John Sloan's work in Philadelphia, and suggest that Mrs. Sloan supported this project to collect biographical and historical context for this period of her husband's career. The collection includes photocopies of art-related materials published in the following Philadelphia newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Evening Call, The Evening Telegraph, The Evening Bulletin, North American, The Philadelphia Press, The Philadelphia Record, Public Ledger, and The Times. The bulk of the articles are from The Philadelphia Inquirer. The collection is organized in chronological order and is divided into three series.

ArchivalResource: 5.3 linear feet (14 volumes in 5 record center boxes and 1 manuscript box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300486614 View