Correspondence : with Paul Philippe Cret, 1905-1921.

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Correspondence : with Paul Philippe Cret, 1905-1921.

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Correspondence with C.C. Zantzinger and C.L. Borie concerns the firm's collaboration with Cret on the following projects: the Philadelphia Parkway, Work No. 38; the Schuylkill River Embankments, Work No. 76; the University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Plan, Work No. 96; the Indianapolis Public Library, Work No. 34; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105. Correspondence also contains an original letter of Ralph Adams Cram to Clarence Zantzinger (sent on to Cret), and copies to Cret of correspondence from C.L. Borie (to Edgar Fahs Smith) and from M.B. Medary (to Clyde H. Burroughs). Also included is a letter from C.L. Borie addressed jointly to Olmsted Brothers, Warren P. Laird and Cret.

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