Correspondence with Paul Philippe Cret, 1919-1933.

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Correspondence with Paul Philippe Cret, 1919-1933.

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Correspondence concerns the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105. Correspondents comprise Albert Kahn, Clyde H. Burroughs, Ralph H. Booth, Edsel Ford, and W. H. Valentiner. File includes a copy of a letter from Mary Soper Pope to Booth. Cret conducted most of this correspondence on behalf of himself and his associated firm, Zantzinger, Borie and Medary. Later correspondence discusses the frescos Diego Rivera painted on the walls of the museum's courtyard garden.

113 items (175 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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