Selected records relating to Philadelphia City Hall Sculpture Ornamentation
name: label: Creator
content: Philadelphia (Pa.).. Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings
label: Names
content: Calder, Alexander Milne, 1846-1923
label: Names
content: McArthur, John, 1823-1890
topic: label: Topic
content: Architectural photography -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 19th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1985 by the Philadelphia City Archives.
creator: label: Creator
content: Philadelphia (Pa.).. Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Volumes ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-1901
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.philcomm
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3602 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 City Archives.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Materials documenting John McArthur and Alexander Milne Calder's work on Philadelphia City Hall including: F. Faust's THE CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, (1879) which contains ca. 200 plates of both the interior and exterior; and a scrapbook of photographs of architectural drawings, plans, and details of ornamentation, identifying most of the sculpture locations and allegorical significance, and photographs of Calder with models.