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 Correspondence regarding the loan of Rush sculptures to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an exhibition of Rush's work, including a letter from Henri Marceau recommending the permanent removal of The Schuylkill Chained and The Schuylkill Freed from their exposed position at the Water Works on the grounds that repeated repainting had obscured Rush's delicate modelling and that as pine sculptures their deterioration was inevitable (1937), and a letter from Marceau confirming the removal and...