Helen Bloomenshine Balboa Park Protective Association Collection 1896-1983

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Helen Bloomenshine Balboa Park Protective Association Collection 1896-1983

This collection contains items relating to the Balboa Park Protective Association that document their efforts for the preservation of San Diego’s Balboa Park.

1.5 Linear feet; (3 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6658164

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Committee of 100 (San Diego, Calif.)

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Edmiston, Eleanor

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Putnam Foundation

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Martin, Philip P.

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Jacot, Henri

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Biographical / Historical Notes The Balboa Park Protective Association was formed in 1947, and sought to preserve the prevailing architecture in Balboa Park while preventing further incursion of peripheral roads, encroachment by other buildings and organizations, and the increased sprawl of parking lots. The Association worked to subvert the Bartholomew Plan, adopted by the City of San Diego in 1960, that called for further development of the...

Citizens Coordinate.

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San Diego Museum of Art.

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Balboa Park Protective Association

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Harland Bartholomew & associates

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Known as the dean of U.S. city planners, Harland Bartholomew (1889-1989) was considered the greatest authority on municipal planning in the mid-twentieth century. Born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1889, Bartholomew became City Planning Commissioner of St. Louis in 1919, the first full-time planner employed by an American city. That year he established Harland Bartholomew and Associates, a city planning consulting firm, serving as its chairman until his retirement in 1962. Bartholomew died Decem...

Timken Museum of Art.

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Tharp, Ross

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Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego

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Marston, Hamilton

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San Diego Museum of Man

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Sessions, Kate Olivia, 1857-1940

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Biographical / Historical Notes Kate Olivia Sessions was born in San Francisco on November 8, 1857. In 1868, her family moved to a ranch in East Oakland where she grew up surrounded by nature, often riding her pony through the countryside and helping her mother in the family garden. She graduated from Oakland High School in 1875. Sessions traveled to Hawaii in 1876 to better her health and entered a San Francisco business college upon her ret...

Bloomenshine, Helen

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Biographical / Historical Notes The Balboa Park Protective Association was formed in 1947, and sought to preserve the prevailing architecture in Balboa Park while preventing further incursion of peripheral roads, encroachment by other buildings and organizations, and the increased sprawl of parking lots. The Association worked to subvert various plans and projects that called for further development of the park and its grounds. Helen Bloomens...

Citizens Coordinate for Century 3

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Historical Note: Citizens Coordinate for Century 3 was founded in 1961. The original name of the organization was Citizens Coordinate for a Handsome Community, but in 1971 the title of the organization was changed to Citizens Coordinate for Century 3. The organization is dedicated to the idea that the outward appearance of a community reveals and influences the character of its people, and that civic beauty is an integral part of the communit...

Fine Arts Society of San Diego (Calif.)

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Hatch, Ruby

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