Online Content: Not Available / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1900">1900</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1949">1949</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Library Records, 1940-1993 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

Held at: Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives [Contact Us]

69th Street Branch Records, 1928-1933 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Fairmount Park Commissioners Records, 1913-1933, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.88 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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W. P. Wilstach Collection Records, 1893-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 inches
Abstract:: None available.

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Far Eastern Art Department Records, 1924-1990 (inclusive)

Extent:: 41.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Arthur Edwin Bye Papers, 1903-1907, 1920-1965, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear feet
Abstract:: During his 80+ years of life, Arthur Edwin Bye (1885-1969) worked as an artist, art dealer, art restorer, curator and scholar. Based on the content of his four unidentified scrapbooks as well as the two short writings, this collection reflects a few of Bye's multiple interests and practices in the fine and decorative arts, including graphic design and printmaking.

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Calvin Hathaway Papers, 1933-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Earl Horter Collection, 1908-1980, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear feet
Abstract:: Philadelphia-area artist, teacher and collector Earl Horter (1881-1940) was one of the city's most influential practitioners and promoters of modern art. This collection consists primarily of photographs, clippings, and exhibition catalogues and checklists pertaining to Horter during his lifetime, as well as some correspondence, writings and ephemera. Several items, particularly newsclippings of posthumous retrospective exhibitions are also included as well as a death mask and hand of the artist, given by his widow. Item-level inventories were prepared in 1995 and 1999.

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Frances Lichten Research Collection, circa 1850-1961, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 cubic feet
Abstract:: The Frances Lichten Research Collection covers a broad range of styles and subjects within the broad category of "decorative arts." Lichten's work as a Research Associate at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was concentrated on Pennsylvania German folk art, the foundation of which was Ms. Lichten's work on the WPA Index of American Design project in the 1930s. This series contains many photographs and drawings, as well as magazine and newspaper clippings. Frances Lichten published numerous books, the last of which was "Decorative Arts of Victoria's Era." The Research Collection contains the majority of research files for this book, which are rich in illustrations, Victorian paper artifacts, and records of the social standards of this era. This collection contains also materials relating to general categories within decorative arts, mainly in the form of clippings from magazines and newspapers.

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Francis P. Garvan Decorative Arts Scrapbooks, 1929, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

Held at: Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives [Contact Us]

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