Resolution of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia requesting that the Fairmount Park Commission to embrace in their estimate for the year 1896, the sum of $20,000 for the purpose of erecting a permanent building on the site of the main exhibition building in West Park especially adapted to the showing of the Centennial Model and its preservation to future generations, 1895 September 19, Drawer: 8.2. History Files, FP.2010.001.006. Fairmount Park Historic Resources Archive. https://pprarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/405837 Accessed April 20, 2025.