Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 65 Collections and/or Records:
Rittenhouse Square. Second phase recommendations for improvements. Menke & Menke. [1 sheet], 19 July 2002
Item — Drawer N8: Series 8, Folder: 4.2
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
Of the 70+ parks within the Fairmount Park system, there is a disparate amount of material available in this collection. Major watershed parks (such as Fairmount Park and Wissahickon Park) are not covered in this collection, nor are significant indepedent parks such as FDR Park and Bartram's Garden. This collection is concentrated on neighborhood parks, particularly smaller parks and squares. Some parks are undocumented, or have only one or two related items, while other parks...
Dates:
19 July 2002
Rittenhouse Square: Sewer blueprints. Plan no. 27C, approximately bounded by the intersections of Chestnut Street and 15th Street, 15th Street and Lombard Street, Lombard Street and 26th Street, and Chestnut Street and 24th Street. [2 sheets; 1 unique sheet], 1965 August 9
Item — Drawer N8: Series 8, Folder: 4.1
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
Of the 70+ parks within the Fairmount Park system, there is a disparate amount of material available in this collection. Major watershed parks (such as Fairmount Park and Wissahickon Park) are not covered in this collection, nor are significant indepedent parks such as FDR Park and Bartram's Garden. This collection is concentrated on neighborhood parks, particularly smaller parks and squares. Some parks are undocumented, or have only one or two related items, while other parks...
Dates:
1965 August 9
Rittenhouse Square: Skyline from Rittenhouse Square, 1929
Item — Drawer 4-1, Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains approximately 200 postcards from 1875 and 2001, though most of the postcards are from 1885 and 1915. A majority of the postcards depict Fairmount Park sites, although two Virginia and one New Hampshire postcard are included in the collection.
Of particular note are the postcards in Series I: Centennial Exposition. The postcards in this series were created in 1875 and each depicts a building from the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Dates:
1929
Rittenhouse Square: The Performance History and Design in Paul Cret's Rittenhouse Square, 2002
Item — Shelf 23
Rittenhouse Square. Topographic plan of Rittenhouse Square. [3 sheets; 1 unique sheet], 1983 March 13
Item — Drawer N8: Series 8, Folder: 4.2
Identifier: 8
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
Of the 70+ parks within the Fairmount Park system, there is a disparate amount of material available in this collection. Major watershed parks (such as Fairmount Park and Wissahickon Park) are not covered in this collection, nor are significant indepedent parks such as FDR Park and Bartram's Garden. This collection is concentrated on neighborhood parks, particularly smaller parks and squares. Some parks are undocumented, or have only one or two related items, while other parks...
Dates:
1983 March 13