Edwards, Park
Metal-worker
Size: 0.5 linear ft. (on 2 microfilm reels)
Summary: Letters from Howard Stratton, Director of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, regarding projects, exhibits, and articles, and from Raymond Pitcairn, regarding Edwards' work at Bryn Athyn; and a scrapbook documenting Edwards' career containing clippings, writings, sketches, leaflets, photographs of completed works and of Samuel Yellin's class at the School of Industrial Arts.
Metalworker; Bryn Athyn, Pa. Studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art before being put in charge of the metal workshop at Bryn Athyn Cathedral.
Microfilmed in 1987 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project.
Microfilm reels 4020-4021 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Park Edwards papers, [ca. 1914]-1954. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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