Correspondence, minutes, reports, and architectural specifications related to the planning, design, and construction of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, including an extract from the will of Ellen Phillips Samuel, a contract between the Fairmount Park Art Association and Paul Philippe Cret as architect for the memorial, a preliminary report of the Samuel Memorial Committee on the subject matter of sculpture and inscriptions, and a 1933 architectural drawing by Cret titled "Synopsis of sculpture and inscriptions for the Samuel Memorial."Also includes extensive correspondence between Henri Marceau, C.L. Borie, Emory McMichael, Joseph Carson, and Paul Cret regarding the sequential approval process for individual sculptural elements including the Ploughman, the Gold Miner, Spanning the Continent, and Welcoming the Peoples, negotiations between the Fairmount Park Art Association and Fairmount Park Commission over Art Jury jurisdiction, landscape and planting correspondence, and correspondence regarding inscriptions on the exedra, including the rejection of a Thomas Paine quotation and its replacement with a passage from the Declaration of Independence.