John Wanamaker department store art gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: John Wanamaker (Firm)
label: Names
content: Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925
label: Names
content: Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr
label: Names
content: Munkácsy, Mihály, 1844-1900
label: Names
content: Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922
label: Names
content: Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- French -- 20th century -- History
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1986 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Subquently donated to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
creator: label: Creator
content: John Wanamaker (Firm)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Department store; Philadelphia, Pa. Founded 1861. Opened an art gallery in 1881. The art gallery is now defunct.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- Pennsylvania
label: Function
content: Department stores -- Pennsylvania
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1908]-1941
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.johnwana
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3918-3919 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 Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records documenting John Wanamaker's import of French painting from Parisian salons and artists to sell in his store, to keep for his private collection and to keep for his store collection. Also included is a photograph album of Rodman Wanamaker's silver collection. Included are: correspondence; customs papers; purchase and sale records; preview invitiations; inventories of works purchased for the store's collection; inventories of Wanamaker's private collection; artist files containing lists of Colin Campbell Cooper's works, photographs and clippings relating to Paul W. Bartlett's paintings, autographed photographs of Frederick Frieseke's painting, and files on Mihaly Munkacsy and Pierre Fritel. Total: 1.5 linear feet.