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Dell Music Center

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Robin Hood Dell East

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Additional parking facilities, 1959 June 8

 Item — Drawer F7a, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1959 June 8

Drainage, East River Drive. Plan showing stormwater drainage structures as constructed for the Department of Recreation, 1957 May 13

 Item — Drawer F3 and F4, Folder: 1.2
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1957 May 13

East Fairmount Park, Robin Hood Dell: History (1 of 2), 1932-2024

 File — Drawer 2-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates: 1932-2024

East Fairmount Park, Robin Hood Dell: History (2 of 2), 1932-2024

 File — Drawer 2-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates: 1932-2024

Entrance Robin Hood Dell [not built], 1950 August 7

 Item — Drawer F7a, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1950 August 7

Mann Center: A Century of Music Under the Stars: An Illustrated History of the Mann Music Center and Robin Hood Dell, 2022 September 10

 Item — Shelf 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 2022 September 10

Plan and estimate for paving parking area adjacent to Robin Hood Dell off Ridge Avenue, 1968 January 8

 Item — Drawer F7a, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains a variety of maps, plans and drawings relating to East and West Fairmount Park. Materials included in the collection are blueprints, bluelines, linens, mylars and paper. The collection contains diverse types of maps and plans, such as sewer plans, topographic plans, site plans, latitudinal and longitudinal plans, water main plans, street maps, and landscape plans. The collection is particularly strong in topographic plans, covering the entire region, and structural...
Dates: 1968 January 8

Robin Hood Dell, 1956-1982

 File — Drawer 5.2
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Dell Music Center venue, performers, and audience members. Events documented include 1967 Rock Jamboree and 1968 rock concert. Notable people pictured include Recreation Commissioner Robert Crawford, City Councilman Thomas Foglietta, Philadelphia radio personalities Jerry Blavat and Georgie Woods, and composer Leonard Bernstein and opera singer Gloria Lane during a performance of Carmen.

Dates: 1956-1982