Box 207
Container
Contains 25 Results:
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
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