Box 207
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Arensberg, Walter and Louise Stevens. Publicity. "Our Modern Wing." Colorama section. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 1954
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
September 26, 1954
Dale, Chester. French and American paintings. Floor plan [gallery seating arrangement for opening luncheon?], undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
undated
Foulc, Edmond. Plates [from unidentified catalog?]., undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The collections processed here include objects from more than one of the handbook categories. The one example, which comprises most of the material in this subseries, is the art collection of Walter and Louise Stevens Arensberg, who collected modern as well as pre-Columbian art. Their collection files consist mostly of correspondence documenting Kimball's untiring efforts to bring the art pieces to the museum. The papers also chronicle the development of a sincere friendship between the...
Dates:
undated
Rome. Model of ancient city. Other drawings, blueprints and stats, 1932, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries consists of two groups of files. The first set, in which files are titled by object or collection, documents items that do not fall within any of the handbook categories or those no longer collected by the museum, primarily objects from Memorial Hall. Also included are two scrapbooks Kimball apparently assembled of various period rooms, galleries and painting collections. Many of the photographs were featured in various issues of the museum's bulletin. The second set,...
Dates:
1932, undated
Caricatures of local art institutions and personnel. Bendiner, Alfred. "Museum pieces." Philadelphia Record, October 20, 1946
File — Box: 207, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries documents a variety of issues Kimball administered to while serving as the museum's director. Included, for example, are attendance records for the museum and its related facilities from 1927 to 1942, calculated in a variety of ways, including not only age group and sex, but time of day, building entrance, and even weather condition. Attendance information of other Philadelphia institutions and other museums throughout the country are also documented, including the survey...
Dates:
October 20, 1946
Civil defense. Atomic defense and protection. "What to Do if A-Bombs Fall." Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, February 11, 1951
File — Box: 207
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries documents a variety of issues Kimball administered to while serving as the museum's director. Included, for example, are attendance records for the museum and its related facilities from 1927 to 1942, calculated in a variety of ways, including not only age group and sex, but time of day, building entrance, and even weather condition. Attendance information of other Philadelphia institutions and other museums throughout the country are also documented, including the survey...
Dates:
February 11, 1951
Merger considerations w/ University Museum. Sketch plan of [PMA] principal exhibition floor [w/ merged exhibits?]. Photostat, circa 1929
File — Box: 207, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries documents a variety of issues Kimball administered to while serving as the museum's director. Included, for example, are attendance records for the museum and its related facilities from 1927 to 1942, calculated in a variety of ways, including not only age group and sex, but time of day, building entrance, and even weather condition. Attendance information of other Philadelphia institutions and other museums throughout the country are also documented, including the survey...
Dates:
circa 1929
Municipal Workers Union negotiations. Organizational chart of general superintendent, incl. names of salaried employees. Blueprint, April 3, 1945
File — Box: 207
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries documents a variety of issues Kimball administered to while serving as the museum's director. Included, for example, are attendance records for the museum and its related facilities from 1927 to 1942, calculated in a variety of ways, including not only age group and sex, but time of day, building entrance, and even weather condition. Attendance information of other Philadelphia institutions and other museums throughout the country are also documented, including the survey...
Dates:
April 3, 1945
Organizational chart of General Superintendent. Photostat, 1948?
File — Box: 207
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-subseries documents a variety of issues Kimball administered to while serving as the museum's director. Included, for example, are attendance records for the museum and its related facilities from 1927 to 1942, calculated in a variety of ways, including not only age group and sex, but time of day, building entrance, and even weather condition. Attendance information of other Philadelphia institutions and other museums throughout the country are also documented, including the survey...
Dates:
1948?
Germany. Tafelung, Nuremberg. Plan and photographs, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
That this sub-subseries comprises the bulk of material only underscores Kimball's promotion to display period rooms from different countries and civilizations within an American museum of art. These files represent European interiors that the museum purchased or that were offered to Kimball for his consideration. Non-European interiors are documented in other subseries. This sub-subseries also contains files pertaining to George Grey Barnard. A collector of Medieval art, Barnard...
Dates:
undated