Loans. CIGNA Service Co., 1988-1989
Scope and Contents
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway, stretching northwest from Philadelphia's city center to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is one of the most remarkable products of the nineteenth-century "City Beautiful" movement. With plans beginning in 1858 and developing through the early decades of the 1900s, building the city beautiful was a long and arduous process. This exhibition, organized by David B. Brownlee, guest curator, and coordinated by Ann Percy, Associate Curator of Drawings, chronicles the relationship between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the evolution of the parkway through architectural drawings, photographs, and other documentary evidence from the Museum's permanent collection and archives throughout the city of Philadelphia. The majority of records for this exhibition pertain to loans from local institutions situated along the parkway, photographs, and photocopies of research materials.
Dates
- 1988-1989
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: ? linear feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Percy, Ann (Creator, Person)
- From the Collection: Shoemaker, Innis H. (Creator, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives Repository
Philadelphia Museum of Art
PO Box 7646
Philadelphia PA 19101-7646 United States
archives@philamuseum.org