Scope and Contents Records related to the planning, design, and construction of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, including an extract from Samuel's will, a contract with architect Paul Philippe Cret, a preliminary report on sculpture and inscriptions, and a 1933 Cret architectural drawing. Also includes correspondence between Henri Marceau, C.L. Borie, Emory McMichael, Joseph Carson, and Cret regarding the sequential approval of individual sculptural elements — the Ploughman, the Gold Miner, Spanning the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence from Joseph Lewis, Secretary of the Thomas Paine Bi-Centennial Committee, requesting permission to erect a statue of Thomas Paine in Fairmount Park and a Fairmount Park Commission resolution declining the request (1942), correspondence from citizens protesting the decision on grounds of religious discrimination and a Fairmount Park Commission denial of reconsideration (1942-1944), and a letter from Philadelphia Inquirer President Charles A. Tyler recommending that if the...