Philadelphia Sketch Club records
name: label: Creator
content: Philadelphia Sketch Club
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1985-1986.
creator: label: Creator
content: Philadelphia Sketch Club
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art club; Philadelphia, Pa. Founded 1860 to provide classes when the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts school was not active. Exhibitions and social activities were also organized. The club is still active (in 1990).
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations
label: Function
content: Art Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Linear feet ((on 5 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1860-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.philsket
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3664-3666 & 3919-3920 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Philadelphia Sketch Club.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A 1049-page history of the club written in 1935 and a chronicle, 1860-1865, including lists of officers, income, and members and locations; 15 volumes of secretaries, treasurers and board minutes 1860-1937 (incomplete); a constitution, 1882-1889; some correspondence; exhibition catalogs and announcements; inventories of club collections including a list of the Thomas Anshutz members portraits; copies of speeches delivered; a few remaining artists's files; issues of PORTFOLIO, a club publication, 1874, 1945-49; and photographs, both loose and in scrapbooks, of members in posed and candid arrangements.