Letters, 1956-1967, to Lewis Mumford.

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Letters, 1956-1967, to Lewis Mumford.

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Edmund N. Bacon, Executive Director, Philadelphia City Planning Commission.

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Bacon, Edmund N.

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Edmund Norwood Bacon was born May 2, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1932 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Philadelphia to work with W. Pope Barney. He attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1936, and worked in Michigan 1937-1939 as Superintendent of City Planning for the city of Flint. From 1940 to 1943...

Philadelphia City Planning Commission

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The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is a municipal agency established in 1929. During the period of this collection the Commission was composed of twelve mayoral appointees, two members of City Council, and one of the Commissioners of Fairmount Park. The duties of the Commission were to make recommendations to City Council concerning proposed changes in the city plan or any new public facilities. Its reports, correspondence, plans, minutes, and scrapbooks from 1929 to the present are found...