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 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

A Living Museum: Philadelphia's Opportunity for Leadership in the Field of Art, 1928

 Item — Drawer 8.4
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: 1928

Catalogue of trees and shrubs native of and introduced in the Horticultural Gardens adjacent to Horticultural Hall in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1880

 File — Shelf 33, Box: 33, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains publications issued by the Fairmount Park Commission. Publications include staff reports, instructional materials, and catalogs.

Dates: Publication: 1880

Communication of the Fairmount Park Commission to the Select and Common Councils on the subject of the Purity of the Schuylkill Water, and their action in the case of the City v. John & James Dobson, 1880

 Item — Drawer 8.3
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: 1880

Description of Plan for the Improvement of Fairmount Park, 1859

 Item — Drawer 2-4
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: 1859

Directions for the planting and care of street trees approved by the Commissioners of Fairmount Park, 1914

 File — Shelf 33, Box: 33, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Contains publications issued by the Fairmount Park Commission. Publications include staff reports, instructional materials, and catalogs.

Dates: Publication: 1914

Fairmount Park Art Association - Report of the commission employed by the Association to study the entrance of the Philadelphia parkway into Fairmount Park: as presented at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Association, December 12th, 1907: also the address on "Architectural development of cities" [2 copies] , 1908

 Item — Drawer 1-3
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: 1908

Fairmount Park Commission: Personnel: Engineers - Rommel, Robert S., n.d.

 File — Drawer 8.4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1934 book Technical Procedure for City Surveys compiled by the Committee of the Surveying and Mapping Divsion on City Surveys

Dates: undated

Fairmount Park System, trolley: History - clippings, excerpts and publications (1 of 5), n.d.

 File — Drawer 8.4
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: undated

Lemon Hill and Fairmount Park: the papers of Charles S. Keyser and Thomas Cochran, relative to a public park for Philadelphia. Published in 1856 and 1872, reprinted in 1886, 1886

 Item — Drawer 2-4
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: 1886

Macpherson Mansion Mt. Pleasant [2 copies], c. 1909

 Item — Drawer 2-4
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: c. 1909