Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="2007">2007</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="2009">2009</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder.)
Abstract:: A collection of Spanish stamps and assorted materials commemorating the life and work of Russian chemist and inventor Dimitry Mendeleyev.

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Extent:: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder.)
Abstract:: A collection of Bulgarian postage stamps, postcard, and postal cover commemorating the life and work of Russian chemist and inventor Dimitry Mendeleyev.

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Extent:: 0.6 linear feet (1 hollinger box.)
Abstract:: A collection of materials created, collected, and maintained by Leon B. Gortler pertaining to the Knox Family, particularly brothers and African-American chemists William Jacob Knox, Jr. and Lawrence Howland Knox.

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Extent:: 1 linear feet (1 box; ca. 14 print photographs)
Abstract:: Photographs from the career of Ernest Ludwig Eliel, professor, author, and one of the founders of modern stereochemistry.

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Extent:: 216.75 linear feet
Abstract:: The Anne d'Harnoncourt Records correspond to the quarter of a century that Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943-2008) served as the George D. Widener Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), assuming the additional responsibilities of Chief Executive Officer in 1997. During her tenure, d'Harnoncourt led the Museum through milestones that transformed its collections, exhibitions, curatorial and educational missions, and physical environment. The records she compiled during that time provide the framework for those transformations and underscore the attention to detail, encyclopedic intellect and interests, community commitment and contagious enthusiasm for the arts that characterized d'Harnoncourt's styles of leadership and life. D'Harnoncourt maintained most of her files in large groups of alphabetically arranged names and subjects. Her exhibition records, however, were kept separate, implying an affinity for a subject she learned well during her earlier curatorial years. Other topics...(see more)

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