Scope and Contents Correspondence and Art Jury resolution regarding the relocation of the McKinley Memorial to a permanent site at the northwest corner of the Parkway and Arch Street (1920), and correspondence documenting decades of attempts to apply the idle McKinley Memorial Fund to various purposes including land acquisition along the Wissahickon on the cy pres principle, tree planting, and cleaning and restoration of the memorial, with a 1966 letter from the Deputy City Solicitor affirming the fund must...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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Correspondence regarding the McKinley Memorial Fund (2001-2002), with attachments of earlier related materials dating from 1909 to the 1990s. See also William McKinley Memorial file for additional fund correspondence.