Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Summary Information

Repository:
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Title:
Preliminary Inventory of the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files
ID:
2018.09
Date:
1914-1981
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
Location note:
ARC
Language of the Material:
English
Abstract:
This collection consists of histories, records, news clippings and visual materials connected to the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market. The Market founded by Mrs. George Gordon Meade Large debuted on May 20, 1914 and drew its inspiration from Mrs. Large's visit to the Paris Flower Market in the Place de la Madeleine. The Market was envisioned as a charity event and the 1914 event raised The first Flower Market $1,250 each for The Children's Hospital, the Hope Day Nursery, and the Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association.

Preferred Citation note

[Description and date of item], [Box and folder number], Preliminary Inventory of Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society McLean Library

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

McLean Library100 N. 20th StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19103215-988-8782mcleanlibrary@pennhort.org

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research use

Conditions Governing Use note

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material

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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Public Relations and Marketing Department image collection, 1958-2005; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society records, 1791-2006

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Index Terms

  • Index Terms
  • Rhoads, Elise Logan
  • Garden Club of America.
  • Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Association.
  • Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association.
  • Large, Mrs. George Gordon Meade
  • Bauer, Dorothy
  • Rivinus, Marion Willis, 1890-
  • Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  • Stationery
  • Correspondence
  • Clippings (Information artifacts)
  • Posters
  • Slides (Photographs)
  • Photographs

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Container List

Title/DescriptionInstances
Copies and manuscript histories of the Rittenhouse Flower Market [ca. 1934, 1964], donor lists, ephemera, 1934-1986Box 1 Folder 1
Poster proof, correspondence, Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Association stationery, photographs [B. F. Kutcher Studio [1924?-1934?], 1924?-1951?Box 1 Folder 2
Copy of the May 26, 1951 Courier (Philadelphia Edition) containing the article "Wharton Center Participates in Rittenouse Flower Show" [page 3], May 12, 1951 Flower Market Supplement, Willmington Morning News, 1951Box 1 Folder 3
Clippings, 1914-1948Box 1 Folder 4
Clippings, 1949-1967Box 1 Folder 5
The Story of Rittenhouse Square 1682-1951 by Marion Willis Martin Rivinus [Philadelphia, 1951?], The Rittenhouse Square Flower Market 1914-1934 [by] Elise Logan Rhoads [Philadelphia, 1934?], and undated photographs, 1934-1951Box 1 Folder 6
Photographs [chiefly undated, some marked 1933-1934], undated scrapbook images, beneficiaries list, "Enchanted Days in the Square" by Dorothy Bauer in Philadelphia Forum (May 1951), 1933-1951Box 1 Folder 7
Rittenhouse Flower Market slides, 1946, 1948Box 1 Folder 8
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Preliminary Inventory of the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files, 1914-1981

MLA citation style
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,. Preliminary Inventory Of The Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files, 1914-1981. no date. 1914.
APA citation style
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,. (1914). Preliminary Inventory of the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files, 1914-1981. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A42879
Chicago citation style
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,. “Preliminary Inventory Of The Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Files, 1914-1981”, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Archive Collections Guides, 1914. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A42879.
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