Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

The Sculpture and Fountain Collection contains materials documenting the sculptures and fountains throughout Philadelphia that the Department of Parks and Recreation maintains. Both photographic materials and records, such as restoration plans, are contained within the collection.

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 contains materials documenting the sculptures and fountains throughout Philadelphia that the Department of Parks and Recreation maintains. Both photographic materials and records, such as restoration plans, are contained within the collection.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

The Sculpture and Fountain Collection contains materials documenting the sculptures and fountains throughout Philadelphia that the Department of Parks and Recreation maintains. Both photographic materials and records, such as restoration plans, are contained within the collection.

Scope and Contents

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.