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Archival Record Series
Recreation, Department of
[Record Group 87]
- 87.1 Annual Reports
- 1913, 1914, 1940, 1941, 1943-1949, 1952, 1954-1979, 1981-1989,
For other annual reports between 1912 and 1937, see Office of the Mayor, Annual Reports
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.2 Files
- 1953-1964, 1968
1 cu.ft., no index
Includes materials concerning the Mummers' Parade, which includes parade regulations, guidelines for judges, award winners' lists, copies of award notices, grandstand ticket requests, ushers' lists, 1956-1964; Recreation Coordination Board's Five-Year Report, 1953-1958; 1968 files of Open Space Program, which includes minutes of meetings of Mayor's Open Space Program Committee and of Technical Advisory Committee on Open Space of Delaware Valley Planning Commission, some correspondence, and maps of existing and proposed outdoor recreation areas.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.3 Site Plan for the Demolition of Moyamensing Prison
- 30 August 1967
1 map, no index
Signed by Managing Director and Commissioner of Recreation. Shows areas to be demolished and those to remain standing. Scale 1/32" = 1'
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.4 Reports and Publications
- 1952-1968
6 volumes
Includes: A Supplement to a Study of the Public Recreation Properties, 1952; Reports of the Department of Recreation, 1952-1956, 1956-1959, 1963-1967; Facilities Inventory, 1958; Action Summer '68, a report on the Summer Recreation program, 1968.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.5 Recreation Coordination Board. Five-Year Report
- 1953-1958
1 volume
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.6 Atwater Kent Museum. Annual Reports
- 1991
1 volume
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.7 Atwater Kent Museum. Reports and Publications
- 1994
1 volume
Includes: Philadelphia History (newsletter) 1994-
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- 87.8 Construction Specifications
- 1961
1 volume
Includes "Specifications for Development of Playground, I & Cayuga Streets." Ehrlich & Levinson, Architects. 6 February 1961.
Location: City Archives, 3101 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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