Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...

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Includes a resolution to commission and erect the sculpture (1895) and a 1920 letter from the Houston family requesting the addition of an inscription explaining the significance of Henry Howard Houston.

Scope and Contents Correspondence from the Fairmount Park Art Association presenting the sculpture to the Fairmount Park Commission and announcing the selected site (1872), a report of the Committee on Plans and Improvements recommending relocation of the sculpture (1874), a Fairmount Park Commission resolution to accept the Committee's recommendation to relocate the sculpture from West Park to a site along East River Drive (1874), and correspondence regarding a further relocation necessitated by construction...

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Correspondence from the Humboldt Monument Committee regarding permission to erect a statue commemorating the centennial of Humboldt's birth, site selection, and the laying of the cornerstone (1869), and correspondence regarding conditions of the grounds surrounding the monument (1902, 1936). Also includes clippings and the von Humboldt entry from a sculpture inventory.

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Includes an 1878 letter from the Fairmount Park Art Association to the Fairmount Park Commission recommending the transfer of the sculpture from storage in Memorial Hall to the Pompeiian Museum.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence from the Fairmount Park Art Association regarding the unveiling ceremony and site grading (1890), specifications for removing and resetting the bronze statue and limestone pedestal by Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary (1919), and correspondence documenting decades of proposed relocations of the statue, including architectural drawings and letters from Paul Philippe Cret (1937-1938) and a 1944 resolution to relocate. Also includes a 1949 letter from Harbeson, Hough, Livingston...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...