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Works Progress Administration Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: FP.2012.008
Abstract
This collection is composed of maps sponsored and created by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. It contains topographic plans of East Fairmount Park, West Fairmount Park, and Cobb's Creek Park. All items in this collection have been digitized and are available online at the Philadelphia Athenaeum's website: http://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/index2.cfm?ct=17
Dates:
c. 1930s
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- Architectural drawings 10
- Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) 5
- Cobbs Creek Park 4
- Historic sites 4
- West Fairmount Park 4
- East Fairmount Park 3
- Pennypack Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Tacony Creek Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Wissahickon Valley Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Bartram House 1
- Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Belmont Mansion 1
- Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Fairmount Park Motor Race 1
- Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Fountains 1
- Fountains -- Pennsylvania 1
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park 1
- Germany 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Landscaping plans 1
- Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Manayunk Canal (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Pennypack Creek (Pa.) 1
- Philadelphia 1
- Philadelphia Museum of Art 1
- Photographs 1
- Poquessing Creek Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Riparian areas 1
- Schuylkill 1
- Sculptures, Statues and Fountains 1
- Topographic surveys 1
- Trails 1
- Trails--Pennsylvania 1
- Venice Island (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Fairmount Park Commission (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Baerer, Henry, 1837-1908 1
- Bailly, Joseph Alexis, 1825-1883 1
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922 1
- Butler, George A., Mr., 1935- 1
- Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893 1
- FitzSimons, Thomas, 1741-1811 1
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
- Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 1
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 1
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
- Greene , Nathanael, 1742-1786 1
- Gregory, John, 1879-1958 1
- Gréber, Jacques 1
- Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809 1
- Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 1
- Houston, Henry Howard, 1820-1895 1
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 1
- Kelly, John B., Sr. (John Bernard), 1889-1960 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- Manger, Heinrich, b. 1833 1
- Marshall, John, 1755-1835 1
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
- McMichael, Morton, 1807-1879 1
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872 1
- Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912 1
- Pennypacker, Galusha, 1844-1916 1
- Pertuch, Walter A. R. 1
- Pułaski, Kazimierz, 1747-1779 1
- Rosin, Harry, 1897-1973 1
- Rush, William, 1756-1833 1
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 1
- Schubert , Franz, 1797-1828 1
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 1
- Welsh, John, 1805-1886 1
- Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794 1 ∧ less
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