Box 207
Container
Contains 25 Results:
City appropriations. Budget for 1943. Payroll plan. Chart and other papers, 1943
File — Box: 207, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
These files consist of material regarding the museum's financial planning, general accounting practices and a few funding projects. The two sets of budget files comprise the bulk of material and reflect the museum's dual role as a private corporation as well as a City-funded entity. The first set of "Budget estimates and reports" primarily represents the museum's budget calculated on its fiscal year, which ran from June 1 of the first year to May 31 of the following year. With the exception...
Dates:
1943
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
Sudler and Hennessey, Inc., 1953
File — Box: 207, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates:
1953
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
Netherlands. Room in the Hague [of Dr. Molhuysen?]. Photographs and related materials, 1917, undated
File — Box: 207, Folder: 6
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:
1917, undated
Netherlands. Room. [Offered by Sluyterman, K. (Karel)?] Blueprints w/ notes, 1928
File — Box: 207, Folder: 7
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:
1928
Cassatt, Mary. "Mother's Day 1935: Three Paintings by Mary Cassatt." Picture section. Chicago Sunday Tribune. [Rotogravure?], May 12, 1935
File — Box: 207, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The artist best documented in this subseries is Thomas Eakins. Most of the correspondence is between Kimball and the artist's widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins, concerning the gifts she and family friend Mary Adeline Williams made to the museum of numerous works by her husband as well as the subsequent exhibition and catalogue of his works. A number of files pertain to the museum's collection of miniatures, most of which were the property of members of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature...
Dates:
May 12, 1935