Edmund N. Bacon research collection, 1973-2004.

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Edmund N. Bacon research collection, 1973-2004.

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Materials in this collection comprise notes, transcripts, photocopies, correspondence and other papers as well as audiotapes and videotapes assembled by Madeline L. Cohen during the course of her years of research on the work of Edmund N. Bacon. The earliest item in the collection is a paper written by Cohen as a history of art student in the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, for a course taught by Bacon in the Graduate School of Fine Arts. Most of the material dates from the late 1980s and early 1990s when Cohen was preparing her Ph. D. dissertation on Bacon's work. In a period when Bacon's work was controversial, Cohen gained his trust and was given many long interviews as well as liberal access to his papers, some of which are found transcribed in the collection. The collection contains a comprehensive set of Cohen's interviews with Bacon and others, dated 1988-1993. It does not contain original personal papers of Bacon or original documents related to his professional work. The collection contains Cohen's dissertation and other writings, published and unpublished, and materials related to her teaching and other research, but no personal materials.

5 cu. ft.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts

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Cohen, Madeline L. d. 2005.

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Edmund Norwood Bacon served as Managing Director of the Philadelphia Housing Association from 1940 to 1943. From 1946 to 1949 he was Senior Land Planner of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and in 1949 he was made Executive Director. He was the author of Design of Cities, published in 1967. Madeline L. Cohen taught Art History at Community College of Philadelphia for twenty-six years, beginning in 1978, heading the Art Department from 1990. She was born in Brook...

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...

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...