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Sculptures and Fountains Collection
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Overview and metadata sections
The Sculpture and Fountain Collection contains materials documenting the sculptures and fountains throughout Philadelphia that the Department of Parks and Recreation maintains. Both photographic materials and records, such as restoration plans, are contained within the collection.
The collection is divided into two series. The first series contains photographs of statues and fountains from throughout at the twentieth century. While many of the folders in the first series are dated, these dates may not be entirely representative of the materials in the folders, as many of the photographs are undated. The second series is made up of textual documents related to the fountains and statues throughout Philadelphia, and for the most part dates are not attached to the folders.
People
- Bell, Alexander Graham
- Dixey, William
- Drexel, Anthony J.
- Fitzsimmons, Thomas
- Garfield, James A.
- Girard, Stephen
- Grant, Ulysses S., General
- Greene, Nathaniel, General
- Hayden, Franz Joseph
- Herbert, Victor
- Houston, Henry
- Kelly, John B.
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Marshal, John, Chief Justice
- McKinley, William, President
- McMichael, Morton
- Meade, George Gordon, Major General
- Melville, Admiral
- Paice, Eli Kirk, Mrs.
- Pennypacker, Galusha
- Pulaski, Casimir, General
- Rush, William
- Samuel, Ellen Phillips
- Schubert, Franz
- Shakespeare, William
- Verdi, Giusseppe
- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- von Humboldt, Alexander
- von Schiller, Johann Christopher Friedrich
- Wayne, Anthony, General
- Welsh, John
- Witherspoon, John, Reverend Doctor
Subject
- Publisher
- Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Andrew Beck and Eric Rosenzweig
- Finding Aid Date
- 2011 June 22
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.
Collection Inventory
Aero Memorial Statue, 1941-1950 June 1.
Drawer 5.5
Alexander Grahm Bell Memorial, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors, 1969 March 6.
Drawer 5.5
Amazon (Mounted Amazon Attacked by a Panther), n.d.
Drawer 5.5
The Boxer (Prugilatore), c. 1949.
Drawer 5.5
Catholic Total Abstinence Fountain, c. 1900-2000 August.
Drawer 5.5
Charioteer of Delphi, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Statue, 1921 October 28-1997 November 18.
Drawer 5.5
Colony in Schuylkill, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Cowboy, 1917-c. 1983.
Drawer 5.5
Creisheim Valley-Pengola, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Danaid, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Dickens and Little Nell.
Drawer 5.5
Dixey Bust, William, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Drexel, Anthony J., n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Duck Girl, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Related Archival Materials note
One image (3 copies) entitled "Duck Girl" can be found in the "1988 Twelve Month Illustrated Calendar of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Dying Lioness, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Feeding the Doves, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Fingerspan, 1987-1994.
Drawer 5.5
Thomas Fitzsimmons, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Florentine Lions, 1997 June 24.
Drawer 5.5
Foley Fountain Horticulture Center, 1978-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Fountain of the Sea Horses (Italian Fountain), 1954-1998 June 15.
Drawer 5.5
The Four Continents, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Gambol II, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Garfield, James A., 1959 March 31.
Drawer 5.5
Drawer M-3
Folder 2
Giant Frog, 1941April 17.
Drawer 5.5
Girard, Stephen, 1908 October.
Drawer 5.5
Gobelin tapestry.
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Graff Memorial, c. 1870-1997 April 4.
Drawer 5.5
Grand Army of the Republic, n.d.-1997 November 18.
Drawer 5.5
Grand Fountain, c. 1900-n.d.
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Drawer 5.5
Grant, General Ulysses S., n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Drawer M-3
Folder 2
Greene, General Nathaniel, 1957.
Drawer 5.5
Hancock, General W.S.
Drawer M-3
Folder 2
Related Archival Materials note
One image entitled "Pennsylvania Civil War Heroes' Monument" can be found in the "1988 Twelve Month Illustrated Calendar of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Hayden, Franz Joseph, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Henry Houston Monument, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Related Archival Materials note
One image is located in "The Fairmount Park Calendar 1985" in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Victor Herbert Monument, c. 1948.
Drawer 5.5
Hudson Bay Wolves Quarreling Over the Carcass of a Deer, c. 1870-n.d.
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Drawer 5.5
von Humboldt, Alexander, 1977 October 21.
Drawer 5.5
Il Penseroso, 1977 November 25.
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Drawer 5.5
The Journeyer, 1988 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Joan of Arc, c. 1990-1948.
Drawer 5.5
Karlsefni, Thorfin, 1920-n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Kelly, John B. Memorial, 1965 June 26.
Drawer 5.5
The Kiss, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Kosciuszki, General Tadeusz.
Drawer 5.5
Lincoln Monument, n.d.
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Drawer 5.5
The Lion Fighter, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Lioness Carrying to Her Young a Wild Boar, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Love Triumphant, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Law, Prosperity, and Power, 1938 October 18-1984.
Drawer 5.5
Marguerite and Faust, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Marshal, Chief Justice John, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
McKinley, William, 1908 October.
Drawer 5.5
Admiral Melville, 1956 September-1967 February 8.
Drawer 5.5
Memorial Hall Sculptures, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs, 1965 March 30.
Drawer 5.5
Meade, Maj. Gen. George Gordon, 1959 April 6.
Drawer M-3
Drawer 5.5
Medicine Man, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
McMichael, Morton, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Nereid, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Night, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Orestes and Pylades Fountain, East Park, 1997 July 31.
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Drawer 5.5
Pavillion in the Trees, 1993.
Drawer 5.5
Pegasus, 1997 November 25.
Drawer 5.5
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Pennypacker, Galusha, 1954 March 23-n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Phillips Fountain, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Pilgrim, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Playing Angels, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Mrs. Eli Kirk Paice Memorial Sundial, 1956 September.
Drawer 5.5
Pro Bono Publico, c. 1870-1997 October 18.
Drawer 5.5
Prometheus Strangling the Vulture.
Drawer 5.5
Pulaski, General Casimir, 1957.
Drawer 5.5
Rebecca at the Wall, 1952 November 6-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Religious Liberty, 1937 August-n.d.
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Drawer 5.5
Reverence, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Rond Point Fountains, 1991 July-1992 March 13.
Drawer 5.5
Rush, William.
Drawer 5.5
Sarcophagus, 1936.
Drawer 5.5
von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Samuel, Ellen Phillips Memorial, 1939 April 27-1961 June 8.
Drawer 5.5
Related Archival Materials note
One image entitled "The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial Sculpture Garden" can be found in the "Fairmount Park, Friends of Philadelphia Parks 1999 Calendar" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Schubert, Franz, 1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Schuylkill Chained and Schuylkill Freed, 2000 October 2.
Drawer 5.5
Sea Weed Girl, 1921 June 24-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Shakespeare Memorial, 1954 April-n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Silenus and the Infant Baccus, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Smith Memorial Arch, c. 1893-1989 June.
Drawer 5.5
Drawer M-3
Folder 1
Related Archival Materials note
One image entitled "Smith Memorial" can be found in the "Fairmount Park, Friends of Philadelphia Parks 1999 Calendar" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Social Consciousness, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Sons of Temperance Fountain, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Spirit of Enterprise, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
St. George and the Dragon, 1997 October 21-c. 2000.
Drawer 5.5
Stone Age in America, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Sundial, n.d.-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Related Archival Materials note
One image (3 copies) entitled "The Calder Sundial at the Horticultural Center" can be found in the "Fairmount Park 1992 Calendar" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Related Archival Materials note
Two images (6 copies total) entitled "Swann Fountain" and "The Swann Fountain in Logan Square" can be found in the "Fairmount Park 1992 Calendar" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Related Archival Materials note
One image entitled "Detail of Swann Fountain in Logan Square, with City Hall in background" can be found in the "Fairmount Park, Friends of Philadelphia Parks 1993 Calendar" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2.
Related Archival Materials note
One image depicting children playing in the fountain can be found in the file for "1988 Twelve Month Illustrated Calendar of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" located in the green shelving unit, drawer no. 2. This is a separate print not chosen for the calendar.
Postcard featuring fountain (approx. 45 copies).
Drawer M-3
Tam O'Shanter Group, 1992 November 23.
Drawer M-3
Shelf Green
Drawer 3
Drawer 5.5
Three Bears.
Drawer 5.5
Three-Way Piece #1: Points, 1964.
Drawer 5.5
Toleration, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Tedyuscung Statue, c. 1955.
Drawer 5.5
Drawer M-3
Folder 2
Verdi, Giusseppe, n.d.-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
War Mothers' Monument, 1956 September-1998 March 2.
Drawer 5.5
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Welsh, John Memorial (Welsh Fountain), c. 1950-1989.
Drawer 5.5
William Rush Memorial Fountain (Nymph and Bittern), c. 1872.
Drawer 5.5
Witherspoon, Rev. Doc John, n.d.-1998 May 25.
Drawer 5.5
Wm. Leonidas Springs Monument, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
The Wrestlers, 1951 December 23-1997 July 31.
Drawer 5.5
Yara, n.d.
Drawer 5.5
Aero Memorial, 1917-1930, 1917-1930.
Drawer 7.2
Aero Memorial, 1931-1939, 1931-1939.
Drawer 7.2
Aero Memorial, 1940-1949, 1940-1949.
Drawer 7.2
Aero Memorial 1950-Present, 1950-n.d.
Drawer 7.2
African Elephant and Calf.
Drawer 7.2
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers.
Drawer 7.2
Amazon.
Drawer 7.2
Atmosphere and Environment XII.
Drawer 7.2
Matthias Baldwin.
Drawer 7.2
Bell, Alexander Graham Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Belmont Plateau Plaque.
Drawer 7.2
Beirut Memorial (Proposed).
Drawer 7.2
Benjamin Franklin Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Billy.
Drawer 7.2
Bolt of Lightning.
Drawer 7.2
Boor, Peter and Ladislav.
Drawer 7.2
The Boxer (Pugilatore).
Drawer 7.2
Calder Museum.
Drawer 7.2
Cascades.
Drawer 7.2
Catholic Total Abstinence Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Catalogue of WPA Mosaics/Car Barn.
Drawer 7.2
Centennial Benches.
Drawer 7.2
Centennial Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Centennial Model.
Drawer 7.2
Chairioteer of Delphi.
Drawer 7.2
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument 1 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument 2 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Clocks, the Lukens and the Stretch.
Drawer 7.2
Colony-in-Schuylkill.
Drawer 7.2
Columbus, Christopher.
Drawer 7.2
Columbus, Christopher, Capital Projects, 1976 Removal to Marconi Plaza.
Drawer 7.2
Columbus, Christopher, Capital Projects, 1982 Site Improvements.
Drawer 7.2
Columbus, Christopher, Conservation, 1980 Convervation.
Drawer 7.2
Cowboy.
Drawer 7.2
Cresheim Memorial Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Crumlish, Judge James.
Drawer 7.2
Cupid.
Drawer 7.2
Danaid.
Drawer 7.2
Darby Smith Memorial Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Diana.
Drawer 7.2
Dickens and Little Nell.
Drawer 7.2
Dilworth, Richardson P. Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Disston, Henry Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
William Dixey Bust.
Drawer 7.2
Drexel, Anthony J.
Drawer 7.2
Duck Girl.
Drawer 7.2
Dying Lioness.
Drawer 7.2
Elephants.
Drawer 7.2
Embodying Thoreau.
Drawer 7.2
Ericsson Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Face and Hands of Abraham Lincoln.
Drawer 7.2
Feeding the Doves.
Drawer 7.2
Fingerspan.
Drawer 7.2
Firestation Fountain, 4th and Arch Streets.
Fitzsimmons, Thomas.
Drawer 7.2
Florentine Lions.
Drawer 7.2
Fountain of the Seahorses (Italian Fountain), Capital Projects, 1984 Restoration and Conservation.
Drawer 7.2
Fountain of the Seahorses (Italian Fountain).
Drawer 7.2
Four Continents, The.
Drawer 7.2
Fox Chase/Rockledge WWI Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
FPC Collection at PMA.
Drawer 7.2
Franklin Square Living Flame Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Gambol II.
Drawer 7.2
Gamekeeper's Night Dog.
Drawer 7.2
Gardoqui, Diego de.
Drawer 7.2
Garfield, James A. Monument.
Drawer 7.2
Gates of Hell.
Drawer 7.2
Giant Frog 1 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Giant Frog 2 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Giants Causeway.
Drawer 7.2
Gifts and Loans, Misc.
Drawer 7.2
Girard Statue.
Drawer 7.2
Gobelin Tapestry.
Drawer 7.2
Goethe.
Drawer 7.2
Gold Star Mothers' Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Graff, Frederick Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Grand Fountain.
Drawer 7.2
Grant Ulysses S. Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Great Mother.
Drawer 7.2
Great Doctor.
Drawer 7.2
Gutekunst, Friederick.
Drawer 7.2
Hatfield Collection 1 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Hatfield Collection 2 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Haydn.
Drawer 7.2
Herbert, Victor Bust.
Drawer 7.2
Houston, Henry Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Hudson Bay Wolves.
Drawer 7.2
Humboldt Monument.
Drawer 7.2
Il Pensoroso (melancholy).
Drawer 7.2
Irish Memorial 1 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Irish Memorial 2 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Iroquois.
Drawer 7.2
Joan of Arc.
Drawer 7.2
John G. Johnson Collection.
Drawer 7.2
Joseph Leidy.
Drawer 7.2
Journeyer.
Drawer 7.2
Kelly, John B. Bust.
Drawer 7.2
Kelly, John B. Statue.
Drawer 7.2
Karlesfini, Thorfinn.
Drawer 7.2
Kopernik.
Drawer 7.2
Korean War Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Kosciuszki, General Tadeusz.
Drawer 7.2
Lafayette Carriage.
Drawer 7.2
Lafayette, Marquis de.
Drawer 7.2
Law, Prosperity, and Power.
Drawer 7.2
Lincoln, Abraham Memorial.
Drawer 7.2
Lippincott Sculptures.
Drawer 7.2
Lion Crushing a Serpant.
Drawer 7.3
Lion Fighter.
Drawer 7.3
Lions, Pair of.
Drawer 7.3
Lioness Carrying to Her Young a Wild Boar.
Drawer 7.3
Love Triumphant.
Drawer 7.3
Marble Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Marguerite and Faust.
Drawer 7.3
Marshall, Chief Justice John.
Drawer 7.3
McKinley, William Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
McKinley, William Memorial, Conservatoin, 1984 Conservation.
Drawer 7.3
McKinley, William Memorial, Convervation, 1990-2002 Conservation.
Drawer 7.3
McKinley, William Memorial, Financial, McKnley Memorial Fund.
Drawer 7.3
McMichael, Morton.
Drawer 7.3
Meade, General George.
Drawer 7.3
Medicine Man.
Drawer 7.3
Melville, George.
Drawer 7.3
Memorial Hall Statues.
Drawer 7.3
Miranda, Francisco de.
Drawer 7.3
Montgomery, General Richard.
Drawer 7.3
Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs.
Drawer 7.3
Morris Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Morris, Robert Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Morton McMichael Commissioner Badge.
Drawer 7.2
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior.
Drawer 7.3
Native American Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Nereid Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Night.
Drawer 7.3
Nyaead.
Drawer 7.3
Nymph and Bittern.
Drawer 7.3
Orestes Pylades Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Thomas Paine State (Never Completed).
Drawer 7.3
Parkway Mosaic Map.
Drawer 7.3
Pastorius Monument.
Drawer 7.3
Pavilion in the Trees.
Drawer 7.3
Pegasus.
Drawer 7.3
Penn, William.
Drawer 7.3
Pennypacker, General Galusha.
Drawer 7.3
Phillips, Henry M. fountain, Conservation, 1998 Masonry conservation.
Drawer 7.3
Phillips, Henry M. Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Pilgrim.
Drawer 7.3
Polish Fountain, 1980, 1980.
Drawer 7.3
Price Memorial Sundial.
Drawer 7.3
Price, Eli Kirk Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Prometheus.
Drawer 7.3
Prophet, the.
Drawer 7.3
Pulaski, General Casimir.
Drawer 7.3
Puma.
Drawer 7.3
Rebecca at the Well.
Drawer 7.3
Religious Liberty.
Drawer 7.3
Restaurant at Valley Green by Herman Weber.
Drawer 7.2
Reverence.
Drawer 7.3
Reynolds, Major General Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Richard Allen Statue (Never Completed).
Drawer 7.3
Rittenhouse, David.
Drawer 7.3
Rock Form (Porthcurno), 2012.
Drawer 7.3
Rocky Statue.
Drawer 7.3
Rond Point Fountain Investigation.
Drawer 7.3
Rond Point Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Rush, William-Sculptures.
Drawer 7.3
Samuel, Ellen Phillips Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Saint George and the Dragon.
Drawer 7.3
Schiller.
Drawer 7.3
Schubert.
Drawer 7.3
Schuylkill Freed.
Drawer 7.3
Schwarzmann, Herman Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Sculpture General, Exhibits.
Drawer 7.2
Sculpture General, Interpretation, Tours.
Drawer 7.2
Sculpture General, Inventories.
Drawer 7.2
Sea Weed Girl.
Drawer 7.3
Shakespeare Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Shakespeare Tablet.
Drawer 7.3
Silenus and the Infant Bacchus.
Drawer 7.3
Sleeping Woman.
Drawer 7.3
Smith Memorial Arch-Maintenance, Lighting.
Drawer 7.3
Smith Memorial Arch.
Drawer 7.3
Social Consciousness.
Drawer 7.3
Spanish Gun (Carriages).
Drawer 7.3
Sons of Temperance Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Spirit of '61.
Drawer 7.3
Springs Memorial Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Stainton, Edward C.
Drawer 7.2
Steuben, General Frederich von.
Drawer 7.3
Stokes, Federal Style Desk and Bookcase 1 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Stokes, Federal Style Desk and Bookcase 2 of 2.
Drawer 7.2
Stone Age in America.
Drawer 7.3
Stone Basin.
Drawer 7.3
Stone Lantern.
Drawer 7.3
Sun Dial.
Drawer 7.3
Swann Memorial Fountain, Capital Projects, 1984-1986 Restoration.
Drawer 7.3
Swann Memorial Fountain, Conservation - "X-Rays from the Report on the Bronzes at Swann Fountain", July 1990.
Drawer M-4
Swann Memorial Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Swann Memorial Fountain (Lighting).
Drawer 7.3
Tam O'Shanter Group.
Drawer 7.3
Tedyuscung.
Drawer 7.3
Thinker, the.
Drawer 7.3
Three Disks, One Lacking (Calder).
Drawer 7.3
Three Way Piece Number 1: Points.
Drawer 7.3
Tiger at Bay.
Drawer 7.3
Toleration.
Drawer 7.3
Verdi.
Drawer 7.3
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
War Mothers' Monument.
Drawer 7.3
Washington, George Monument, Capital Projects, 1996 Restoration.
Drawer 7.3
Washington, George Monument, Conservation, 1984 Conservation.
Drawer 7.3
Washington Monument.
Drawer 7.3
Washington, George Monument.
Drawer 7.3
Washington Grays Monument.
Drawer 7.3
Water Works NHL Plaque.
Drawer 7.3
Wayne, General Anthony.
Drawer 7.3
Wedges, the.
Drawer 7.3
Welsh, John Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Walt, Whitman.
Drawer 7.3
William Reilly Memorial.
Drawer 7.3
Wilstach Collection (Memorial Hall).
Drawer 7.2
Witherspoon, John.
Drawer 7.3
Woodside, John (Attributed), Fairmount Park Water Works (Oil on Canvas).
Drawer 7.2
World Maps.
Drawer 7.2
Wrestlers.
Drawer 7.3
WTCU Memorial Fountain.
Drawer 7.3
Young Meher.
Drawer 7.3