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Photographs of the building, park grounds, facilities, and Connie Mack statue. Activities and events depicted include a dance class, a recreation leaders meeting, and a game of marbles.

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Photographs of the building exterior, the park grounds, a dance recital, and children playing on the playground equipment.

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Photographs include building and grounds exteriors, arts and crafts, a badminton clinic, dancers performing at the dedication of the new gymnasium, a softball game, and vandalism and other damage to the property.

Scope and Contents Photographs documenting Department of Recreation events and activities from 1955 to 1969. Events include lifeguard in-service training, the City Employees' Fair, Spring Recreation Conference, a Christmas-Hanukkah singalong for senior citizens, the American Public Works Association Convention, Bicycle Rodeo, city hoop-whirling championships, marbles contest, 7th Annual Children's Play and Ballet at the Wanamaker Building, basketball clinic at Camp Thumbs-Up, Big Band Dance at Convention Hall,...

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Photographs of the park grounds, children playing on the playground equipment, and people dancing at the Police and Firemen's Band Concert.

Scope and Contents Photographs of the building exterior, grounds, children playing on the playground equipment, and children playing in the spray pool. Events and programs documented include the recreation center groundbreaking ceremony, a bocce championship game, the Guerin Music Festival, the indoor bocce center groundbreaking ceremony, a Gold Medal basketball game, arts and crafts sessions, demolition ceremonies prior to the recreation center's construction, performances from the Folk Dance Festival, and a...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection contains photographs of the Fairmount Park system and Philadelphia recreation facilities created between 1855 and 2012, primarily photographic prints with some slides, negatives, contact sheets, and transparencies. The collection consists largely of 8 x 10 inch prints documenting park features such as historic houses, guard boxes, landscapes, construction, and demolition, as well as recreation centers, playgrounds, pools, and recreational programming, though sizes and...

Scope and Contents Photographs of the building exterior, children playing on playground equipment, and people swimming in the pool. Events and activities documented include talent show, Geator Caravan concert, pool ribbon-cutting ceremony, Dance Festival, bubble gum-blowing contest, Bicycle Safety Rodeo, Recreation Department Umpire's Clinic, and Lawncrest float in the Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up Parade. Notable people pictured include Recreation Commissioner Robert Crawford, City Councilman Harry Jannotti, and...

Scope and Contents Photographs of the building exterior, park grounds, and various events and activities at Mann Recreation Center from 1965 to 1975. Events and activities documented include Water Carnival, Christmas party, City Championship Volleyball Tournament, Swimming Championship meet, Doll Show, Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Clinic, physical fitness program, Girls Tumbling Meet, Field Day featuring Jim Washington of the 76ers, floor hockey game, and gymnastics class. Notable people pictured include...

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Photographs of the building exterior, museum grounds, construction process, and Japanese temple. Events documented include 1970 Inner City Art Exhibit, 1966 folk dance, arts camp, Department of Recreation's 1969 Cycle-In, 1973 exhibit A Sense of Style: 200 Years of Philadelphia Fashion, 1986 Diego Rivera exhibition. Notable people pictured include Department of Recreation Commissioner Robert Crawford.