Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1925">1925</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1929">1929</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Langdon Warner records, 1917-1923 (bulk) 1916-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4.58 linear feet (11 document boxes)
Abstract:: Langdon Warner, a scholar of Asian art and an archeologist, was Director of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art from 1917 to 1923. Warner also served as Curator of the Wilstach Collection (the Wilstach family art collection was bequeathed to the city in 1892 and custodianship was transferred to the Museum in 1917). While serving as Director of the Museum Warner, traveled extensively in Asia and was often away from the Museum. Almost immediately after taking the job, he departed for Japan where he set about acquiring works of art that "were thought too good to lose." The Langdon Warner records contain correspondence of Langdon Warner, Museum Director between 1917 and 1923, and E. Hamilton Bell, Acting Director during Warner’s absence. At the time, the Museum's collections were housed in Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall. The correspondence mainly concerns the Museum's facilities, collections, exhibitions and purchases. This collection is divided into two series: Series...(see more)

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Julius Zieget Records, 1892-1964 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Secretary of the Corporation Records, 1825-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Financial Records, 1875-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Henri Gabriel Marceau Curatorial Records, 1929-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 7 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Indian Art Department Records, circa 1896-1999, undated (inclusive)

Extent:: 36.75 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Development and Membership Department Records, 1927, 1940-1989 (bulk 1967-1981) (inclusive)

Extent:: 24.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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Photography Department Records, 1925-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.5 linear foot
Abstract:: None available.

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Schools Records, 1879-1966 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.5 linear feet
Abstract:: None available.

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A. E. (Albert Eugene) Gallatin Papers, 1927-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear foot
Abstract:: These three scrapbooks document the first museum gallery in America devoted to modern art and founded by the collector and art historian Albert Eugene Gallatin. The scrapbooks contain newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases and announcements of exhibitions, acquisitions and new publications. Coverage starts with the 1927 announcement of the opening of the Gallery of Living Art, which was housed and operated by New York University on its main Washington Square campus, and concludes in 1943 when the University closed the facility, which by then operated as the Museum of Living Art, and Gallatin's collection was transferred to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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