Correspondence with the University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1950.

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Correspondence with the University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1950.

Contains primarily correspondence between Barnes (or the secretary of the Barnes Foundation, Nelle E. Mullen, on Barnes' behalf) and university officials. Vice-provost John M. Fogg is Barnes' most frequent correspondent, but other members of the university in the collection include presidents George William McClelland and Harold Edward Stassen; executive vice-president William H. DuBarry; George Simpson Koyl, dean of the School of Fine Arts; Roderick M. Chisholm, who was hired by the university to teach a joint Penn-Barnes course; Glenn R. Morrow, dean of the College; Edgar Arthur Singer, philosophy professor; Frederick C. Gruber of Penn's radio station; and students Jon D. Longaker and Hannah Dorothy Clymer.

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University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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In 1921, the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later renamed the Philadelphia Museum of Art) held a special loan exhibition of colonial silver, mostly American pieces, with some European ones. A catalog of the exhibit was published as Bulletin number 68 in June 1921. There are no clues as to who assembled this special volume. From the description of Bulletin - Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 261233369 Art museum; Philadelphia, Pen...

Singer, Edgar A. (Edgar Arthur), 1873-1955

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Clifford, Henry, 1768-1813

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Title: 2nd Earl of Cumberland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000352.0x0001af Henry Clifford was curator of paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the time of this correspondence. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1950-1962, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155900541 Title: 10th Baron Clifford British Library Archiv...

Clymer, Hannah Dorothy.

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Koyl, George Simpson, 1885-1975

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George S. Koyl was born in Wyoming in 1885. He was trained in architecture in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the American Academy in Rome 1911-1914. After returning to the United States, he taught at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, worked in the offices of Cass Gilbert and McKim, Mead & White and later began an independent practice. Koyl returned to Philadelphia as Dean of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in 1932. After his retire...

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Stern, Horace, 1878-1969

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Fogg, John M. (John Milton), 1898-1982

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Dr. John Milton Fogg, Jr., was a botanist, University of Pennsylvania professor, Dean, and Vice Provost, director of the Morris Arboretum, instructor at the Arboretum School of the Barnes Foundation, and director of the Barnes Foundation Arboretum. From the description of John Milton Fogg Papers, 1931-1982. (The Barnes Foundation). WorldCat record id: 704650574 ...

Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997

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Author; d. 1997. From the description of James A. Michener Chesapeake collection, 1975-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973705 Author. From the description of James A. Michener papers, 1906-1992 (bulk 1945-1992). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063535 James Albert Michener was born in 1907 to unknown parents and raised as an orphan in the care of widow Mabel Michener of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. By the time he graduated from high school in 1925, h...

Rhoads, C. Brewster, 1892-1973

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Hospers, John, 1918-2011

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Libertarian Party presidential candidate, 1972. From the description of Papers of John Hospers, 1971-1974. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959451 ...

Clews, Marie, 1880-1959

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Mullen, Nelle E.

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Read, Nelson

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Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951

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Stassen, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1907-2001

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Lawyer; governor. From the description of Reminiscences of Harold Edward Stassen : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513413 American politician. From the description of Letter, 1945 April 30, San Francisco, to Helen M. Taft, Mendon, Mass. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953452 Stassen was born in Minnesota in 1907. His political career began in 1930 when he was elected as Dakota County at...

Gruber, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1903-

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Morrow, Glenn R. (Glenn Raymond), 1895-1973

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DuBarry, William H.

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Barnes foundation

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McClelland, George William.

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Longaker, Jon D.

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Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955

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Museum director, architect. Educated at Harvard (M.Arch. 1912) and University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1915). Founder and director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1923-1925). Director of Philadelphia Museum of Art (1925-1955). From the description of Papers of Sidney Fiske Kimball, 1918-1952 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 269301918 Sydney Fiske Kimball, b. Newton, Mass. Architect, architectural historian, professor of architecture and ...

Ingersoll, R. Sturgis (Robert Sturgis), 1891-

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Ingersoll was a lawyer, art collector, and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; McCarter a Philadelphia painter. From the description of R. Sturgis Ingersoll papers related to Henry McCarter, 1896-1944 (bulk 1930-1943). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455126 Ingersoll was a lawyer and President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Lipchitz a sculptor. From the description of R. Sturgis Ingersoll selected correspondence with Jacques Lipchitz, 1959-1962. (U...

Chisholm, Roderick, M.

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