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In this interview, Mary Givens Kane, ex-Office Manager for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, recounts the past landscape and culture of the museum when she began working in 1944 and onward.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella...

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Elizabeth Anderson and Susan Anderson interview Henry Magaziner about his life in the 20th-century world of architecture, and notably, his connection to Julian Abele, famed architect and designer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on June 16, 2006.

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Beatrice Garvan is Curator Emerita of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This interview was conducted by Elizabeth Anderson and Susan Anderson in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives on October 31, 2006.

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This file contains two sessions of oral history interviews with Ella Schaap, who was a curator at the Philadelphia Musuem of Art beginning in the mid 1950s. In the second interview session, Ella Schaap is joined by her friend and past colleague Mary Anne Dutt Justice, another past curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Maxine de Schauensee Lewis served as a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Interview conducted by Sharon Zane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 2, 2009.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection preserves first-hand accounts of the museum’s activities. This collection is comprised of transcripts, audio and video interviews with artists, museum staff, scholars, curators, and trustees.The recording of oral histories began at the museum in the 1980s and restarted in 2006, with an informal series of interviews that included Henry Magaziner (a close friend of Julian Abele, a noted architect and co-designer of the museum’s Fairmount Building), Ella...