Collection, 1819-1919.

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Collection, 1819-1919.

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Within the Papers series (1850-1919), the material pertains to Richards role in the construction of buildings for the University of Pennsylvania campus, including College Hall and Medical Hall and for the Northminster Church in West Philadelphia. The series also contains floor plans of the College building and Medical building on the Universitys Ninth Street campus. The Photographs series (undated) contains a glass plate negative of Richards. The Publications series (1819-1872) contains select volumes of the publication The Builders Assistant and publications relating to the dedication of the Universitys College Hall in 1872.

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University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania.

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In 1919 Edward Bushnell was appointed publicity agent for the University of Pennsylvania. His appointment began a long and expanding effort at public relations at the University. In 1954 the Department of Public Relations expanded its work to include two new units, Motion Picture Services and the Office of Radio and Television. These two offices operated until 1975 when they were phased out of a stream-lined department. From the description of University Film Collection, 1915-1989. (...

Richards, Horace Clark, 1868-1945.

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Physicist Horace Clark Richards became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1907. From the guide to the Radium and its rays, Nov. 1914., 1914, (American Philosophical Society) Horace Clark Richards was a physicist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1907. From the description of Radium and its rays, 1914. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122473883 Horace Clark Richards was born in 1868 to Th...

Haviland, John, 1792-1852

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Architect who emigrated from England to the United States. From the description of Papers, 1806-1868. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213487056 ...

Northminster Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Richards, T. W. (Thomas Webb), 1836-1911

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Taken from a label used in a University Exhibition (found in the T.W.R. Collection control file): "T.W. Richards was the son of Benjamin Moore Richards, a Welsh-born tailor living in the rear of a Lombard Street townhouse. Neither Thomas nor his brother, William Trost Richards, enjoyed formal education beyond the year 1846, but both apparently demonstrated early artistic genius. William Trost was later to become a well-known marine artist, while Thomas apprenticed with Samuel Sloan, one of Phila...