Books
Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
Found in 20 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
General Galusha Pennypacker Memorial, 1922-1987
File — Drawer 7.2
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,...
Dates:
1922-1987
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