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Fiske Kimball Records

Collection Summary

Information for Researchers

Administrative Information

Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Arrangement Note

Series Outline

I. General correspondence and related material

II. Officers and other overseers

III. Administrative issues

IV. Curatorial issues

V. Service departments

VI. Development and public relations

VII. Objects and related topics

B. Costume and textiles

C. European decorative arts and arms and armor

D. European painting and sculpture before 1900

E. Prints, drawings and photographs

F. American art and decorative arts

G. Modern and contemporary art

H. Art collections

VIII. WPA and other relief programs

IX. PMA-related facilities

Subseries A. Asian art

Date:

1923-1954, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

See Also:
Fiske Kimball Records / VII. Objects and related topics / I. Other / f. Pepper, John W. and Henrietta Dallas. Bequest of contents of Fair Acres, Jenkintown, Pa.

Fiske Kimball Papers / VII. Writings and research / I. Memoirs / 2. Memorabilia / f. "Memorabilia, 1935-1945." Various articles re PMA's new Oriental Wing. Art News. Oriental Art issue, 38 (Mar. 1940): 12-25.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by country of origin and within each country subgroup, alphabetically by general object classification. If country of origin cannot be determined or if several geographic areas are represented, the files are identified most often by general object classification or by collector and are also arranged within the overall alphabetical run.

Box	Folder	Author/Title	Date