Richardson Dilworth papers 3112 Finding aid prepared by Willhem Echevarria..
Last updated on November 09, 2018.
First edition
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
, 2010 Richardson Dilworth papers
Table of Contents
Summary Information...... 3 Administrative Information...... 4 Controlled Access Headings...... 4 Collection Inventory...... 7 I. Politics, campaigns, and politicians...... 7 II. City, State, National, and International issues...... 9 III. Civic groups and projects...... 11 IV. Boston-Washington Corridor...... 14 V. Governor’s Committee on Transportation...... 15 VI. Reading Railroad Receivership...... 16 VII. Personal...... 17 VIII. Legal...... 26 IX. Board of Education...... 28 X. Scrapbooks...... 39
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Summary Information
Repository Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator Dilworth, Richardson, 1898-1974.
Title Richardson Dilworth papers
Call number 3112
Date [bulk] 1940-1972
Date [inclusive] 1881-2002, undated
Extent 87.7 linear feet (; 258 boxes, 19 volumes, 7 flat files)
Language English
Mixed materials [Box] 247-251
Mixed materials [Box] 43-55
Mixed materials [Oversize] Flat files 1-7
Mixed materials [Box] 107-156
Mixed materials [Box] 1-42
Mixed materials [Box] 56-106
Mixed materials [Box] 206-246
Mixed materials [Volume] 1-19
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Abstract The papers of Richardson Dilworth include correspondence, office files, accounts, reports, political campaign materials, brochures, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and photographs that primarily pertain to the immediate years before and after he became mayor of Philadelphia (1956-1962). The collection also contains papers related to Dilworth’s role on the Philadelphia Board of Education, his failed run for Pennsylvania governor, and from his law firm Dilworth Paxson LLP.
Administrative Information
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
, 2010 Finding aid prepared by Willhem Echevarria..
Sponsor This collection was processed as part of the Civic Engagement Collections Project. Funding for this project was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and Dilworth Paxson LLP.
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. • Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. • Philadelphia Bar Association. • Philadelphia County (Pa.).
- Page 4 - Richardson Dilworth papers • Reading Company. • School District of Philadelphia, Pa.. • Yale Law School.
Form/Genre(s)
• Correspondence. • Diaries. • Hate mail. • Photographs. • Records. • Speeches, addresses, etc.
Geographic Name(s)
• Pennsylvania--Politics and government. • Philadelphia (Pa.). • Philadelphia County (Pa.).
Personal Name(s)
• Clark, Joseph S. • D’Ortona, Paul. • Rizzo, Frank, 1920-1991. • Shapp, Milton J., 1912-1994. • Tate, James H. J. (James Hugh Joseph), 1910-
Subject(s)
• City planning--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Education, Urban--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Education, Urban--United States--Administration. • Education--United States--History--20th century. • Education--United States--Management. • High speed ground transportation. • Mayors--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Municipal charters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Municipal government--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Municipal officials and employees--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Page 5 - Richardson Dilworth papers • Pennsylvania. Governor’s Committee for Transportation. • Philadelphia (Pa.)--City planning. • Philadelphia (Pa.)--Civic improvement. • Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--20th century. • Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social problems. • Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States--History. • Social reformers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Urban development. • Urban policy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. • Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
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Collection Inventory
I. Politics, campaigns, and politicians, (1945-1973). 6.4 Linear feet (; 16 boxes, 3 volumes, 2 flat files). Scope and content note
This series contains file records that Dilworth kept on Philadelphia politicians and political issues. Also found here are documents related to his political campaigns during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Box
Mayor Frank L. Rizzo. 1
James H. J. Tate; Good Judges for Philadelphia; Governor Milton J. Shapp; Lyndon B. 2 Johnson; Anthony J. Celebrezze; Barry M. Goldwater.
John B. Kelly; Paul D’Ortona; Mayor Frank L. Rizzo; clippings 1971; Milton J. Shapp. 3
Senator Philip A. Hart; 1965 campaign; 1966 campaign; 1967 campaign; 1964 State 4 campaign; Democratic Site Committee; Joseph S. Clark.
1962 Governorship campaign; Convention Site Committee (Republican); Convention Site 5 Committee (Democrat).
1964 Democratic National Convention; 1963 Citizens for Tate; 1959 Mayoralty campaign 6 accounting; Albert Gore.
Joseph S. Clark Jr.; 1962 campaign. 7
Speech (1945); 1947 Mayoralty Campaign; 1948 National Campaign-speeches; 1948 170 Speeches and statements re: clean-up; 1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-TV scripts; 1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-radio scripts and announcements; 1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-October statements; 1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-September statements;
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1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-speeches; 1949 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-radio scripts; Statements, releases, talks (1949-1951).
1950 Governorship Campaign-campaign tours; 1950 Governorship Campaign-platform; 171 1950 Governorship Campaign-Candidates dinner, October 1950; 1950 Governorship Campaign-Radio/TV broadcasts; 1950 Governorship Campaign-statements; 1950 Governorship Campaign-Dilworth statements, miscellaneous statements; 1950 Treasure’s Office-radio scripts; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-Dilworth radio scripts, Dilworth TV scripts; 1951 Dilworth speeches.
1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-Dilworth statements, speeches, Street Corner Talks, 172 miscellaneous statements, miscellaneous speeches; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign- statements; 1951 Dilworth Street Corner Talks; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-TV scripts; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-Radio scripts; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign- miscellaneous speeches; 1951 Clark/Dilworth Campaign-miscellaneous statements; 1955 Mayoralty Campaign; Bucci Poll-1955 Mayoralty Campaign.
1955 Mayoralty Campaign; 1955 Mayoralty Campaign-Radio scripts; 1955 Mayoralty 173 Campaign-TV scripts; 1955 Mayoralty Campaign-TV Correspondence; 1955 Mayoralty Campaign-Miscellaneous; Dilworth Campaign Committee (1955)-Correspondence and lists.
1959 Mayoralty Campaign-Television; 1959 Mayoralty Campaign-Speeches; 1962 174 Governorship Campaign; 1962 Governorship Campaign-TV (North Agency); 1962 Governorship Campaign-Statements; 1962 Governorship Campaign-Speeches; Election Data-State; Election Data-General; Expenses (1962).
Election Data-General; Election Data-National; Election Data-City; Election Data-1957; 175 Bureau of Municipal Research; Budget; Budget-Taxes-Newspaper clippings; Budget-State Budget Data; Budget-Pamphlets, data, etc.
Joseph R. McCarthy-Books, Pamphlets, etc.; Joseph R. McCarthy-Congressional 176 Investigation; Election Frauds; Inauguration (1952).
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Inauguration Data; Inauguration Invitations; Campaign Literature. 177
William W. Scranton; 1955 Mayoralty campaign-statements of receipts and expenses; 1955 230 Mayoralty campaign-material for speeches; 1959 Mayoralty campaign-candidates’ expense return; Mayoralty campaign (1959)-Bucci poll; Philadelphia Mayoralty study (1959); Mayoralty campaign (1959)-radio; Lists [committees; members of Democratic committee; candidates for state senate; candidates for US Congress; etc.]; Inauguration (1960); Bucci poll/Harris poll (1961); Platform (1962); Governorship campaign (1962)-authorizations (contributions).
Box
Political cartoons. Flat file 1
Box
Financial Program, City of Philadelphia (1947). 1
The Stark Reality of Responsibility by Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1952). 6
The Official Report of the Philadelphia Charter Commission (1938). 11
Box
Campaign literature-Clark/Dilworth poster. Flat file 7
II. City, State, National, and International issues, (1947-1973). 4.8 Linear feet (; 12 boxes). Scope and content note
This series features papers related to events and issues of both national and local importance. Most of the newspapers clippings collected by Dilworth can be found here.
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Box
City government; Civil Rights; Counties (Adam to Fulton); Counties (Green to Lycoming); 8 Counties (McKean to Potter); Counties (Schuylkill to York); Nixon; Hoover and FBI; 1963 State issues; 1963 City issues; 1963 International issues; 1963 National issues.
Watergate; City Council; Legislature raises; George McGovern; Military-Industrial; 9 Attorney General Mitchell; 1973 School strike; Welfare; Pornography; Vietnam.
Black Panthers; Student rights; Student unrest; Urban problems. 10
1952 State Issues; International Issues-Asia(1951-1956); International Issues-Africa; 204 International Issues-Israel; International Issues-Europe (1951-1956).
1952 State Issues; 1952 State Issues-John S. Fine; 1952 State Issues-William E. Woodside; 205 1952 State Issues-coal regions; 1952 National Issues; 1952 National Issues-proposed national issues talk; 1955 National Issues; 1955 National Issues-Yalta papers; 1949 National Issues; 1950 National Issues; 1950 National Issues-Eisenhower boom.
1948 National Issues; 1951 National Issues; 1951 National Issues-MacArthur; 1954 206 National Issues; 1956 National Issues; 1959 National Issues; 1961 National Issues.
National Issues-1953; State Issues-1948; State Issues-1949; State Issues-1950; 1951 State 207 Issues; 1957 National Issues.
1951 State Issues; City Issues (1953); City Issues (1954). 208
City Issues-Grand Jury (1951); City Issues-General (1951); City Issues (1952); 1954 City 209 Issues-City Charter Fight.
City Issues (1947)-clippings; City Issues (1947)-pamphlets; City Issues (1949); City Issues 210 (1950); City Issues (1952); 1955 State Issues; 1955 State Issues-Budget; 1955 State Issues- State appointments; 1959, 1960 State Issues; 1961 State Issues.
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1954 State Issues; 1954 State Issues-Lloyd H. Wood; 1954 State Issues-Platform; 1954 217 State Issues-statements and news releases; 1956 State Issues; 1956 State Issues-Senate fight; 1957 State Issues; 1958 State Issues.
III. Civic groups and projects, (1948-1973). 15.6 Linear feet (; 39 boxes, 12 volumes). Scope and content note
This series contains files, papers, and printed materials pertaining to different organizations and agencies that Dilworth was involved with or interested in.
Box
Theater of the Living Arts; United Fund drives. 11
Oskar Stonorov Fountain Competition; University City Science Corporation; Villanova 12 University; Washington Square Association.
West Philadelphia Corporation. 13
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement. 48
SEPTA. 49
Lincoln National Bank. 50
A New Face for the City: The Community Decision Process in Philadelphia’s Downtown 51 Redevelopment by Cyril Roseman.
Philadelphia Port Corporation. 61
Presidential Emergency Board 1966. 62
Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation I. 63
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Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation II. 64
St. Joseph’s College; St. Peter’s School-Board of Directors; Society Hill Week; South 65 Philadelphia Community Development Corporation.
Stadium; Hearings on Revision of City Charter 1973; City-County Consolidation. 66
Committee to Preserve Philadelphia Historic Gateway; Committee for Economic 67 Development; Community College; Girard College 1965.
Community Renewal Program; Fellowship Commission. 68
Educational Home Rule Charter Commission; Grand Jury: Auto Trade-Ins, Frankford 69 EL, Broadway maintenance, Riverview, Police Administration Building, SCRAP, Street paving, Illegal sale of paint.
Governor’s Justice Commission; Governor’s Committee on Priorities; Greater Philadelphia 70 Movement.
Institute of Contemporary Art; Jefferson House; Korean Center; Jewish Defense League; 71 John F. Kennedy; Doctors’ Hospital vs. Blue Cross.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Museum Associates of Philadelphia 72 Museum of Art.
Old Philadelphia Development Corporation; Old Philadelphia Development Corporation- 73-75 Pamphlets and Brochures.
Passenger Service Improvement Corporation; 100;000 Pennsylvanians for Promotion of 76 Economic Growth; Parochial Schools.
Parochial Schools Advisory Committee. 77
Pennsylvania Constitutional Revision Commission; Pennsylvania Crime Commission. 78
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Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Commission; Philadelphia Bar Association. 79
Philadelphia Orchestra Association; American Arbitration Association; American Bar 80 Association; Chamber of Commerce; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 81-85
Documents- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 234 (oversize)
Citizens Committee on Public Education. 86
The Greater Philadelphia Movement-correspondence, clippings; Committee of Fifteen; 198 City-County Consolidation/City Charter/Home Rule-statements, Data: Moreland Act, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings.
City-County Consolidation/City Charter/Home Rule-pamphlets; Fellowship Commission. 199
City-County Consolidation/City Charter/Home Rule-pamphlets; Fellowship Commission 200 (1955-1956); Philadelphia Fellowship Commission-committee on community tensions.
Fellowship Commission-correspondence; Philadelphia Fellowship Commission 201 (1955-1956); Committee for Pennsylvania (1953-1954)-Richardson Dilworth, Chairman; Committee for Philadelphia-Newspaper advertisements-general correspondence, Radio programs-scripts, Television programs-scripts, mailings and bills, Sidney B. Dexter.
Committee for Philadelphia-Sidney B. Dexter; Volunteers for leaders (1954); Penn State- 202 Board of Trustees mailing list and data; Penn State-General correspondence; Penn State- Confidential correspondence and memos; Penn State-Committee on Instruction.
Penn State-Confidential correspondence and memos; Penn State-requests for scholarship 203 aid; Penn State-scholarship controversy.
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Box
Inscribed copy of Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the National Academy 7 of Arbitrators (1965).
Inscribed copy of A History of Philadelphia’s University City by Leon S. Rosenthal (1964). 8
Department of Health Annual Report 1952. 9
Report of the City Charter Revision Commission (1973). 10
Dedicated copy (by Governor William W. Scranton) of Discover the New Pennsylvania. 12
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia-Pediatric Pioneering. 13
PA Department of Highways-Six Year Improvement Plan. 14-16
Proposal for Covered Expressway. 17
Proposal for Covered Expressway (2 copies, spiral bound). 18-19
IV. Boston-Washington Corridor, (1962-1967). 1.6 Linear feet (4 boxes). Scope and content note
Dilworth was very interested in the development of high-speed ground transportation systems and the impact these have on big urban centers. This series features studies, surveys, memos, correspondence, and reports related to the development and expansion of a transportation corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C.
Box
Transportation Study; Washington folder. 14
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Survey of Technology for High Speed Ground Transport; Transportation Study: Senator 15 Pell, Meyer Feldman, P. Kenneth O’ Donnell, Employment inquiries, Media Publicity and correspondence.
Transportation Study-Public Advisory Committee: Personal memos, General 16 correspondence, Congratulatory letters, General (reports, surveys, etc.).
Transportation Study: Reports and memos, Scope, Authority of the Chairman, U.S. Mass 17 Transportation Bill, Staff, Pell Plan, Publicity, Miscellaneous.
V. Governor’s Committee on Transportation, (1958-1973). 4 Linear feet (; 10 boxes). Scope and content note
This series contains documents and reports related to Dilworth’s participation in the Governor’s Committee on Transportation starting in 1969.
Box
Study firms; General American Transportation; Systems Analysis Research Corporation; 18 Regional Plan Associates; Solicitations by Study firms.
Reports. 19-24
Correspondence-Governor’s Committee on Transportation; Correspondence- 164 Technical Advisory Committee; List of Committee members; Minutes; Miscellaneous correspondence.
Preliminary Analyses of Intercity Transportation Demand in Pennsylvania. 249
Preliminary Analyses of Intercity Transportation Demand in Pennsylvania (draft final 250 report).
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VI. Reading Railroad Receivership, (1971-1974). 3.2 Linear feet (; 8 boxes). Scope and content note
On several occasions, Richardson Dilworth was appointed by the court to act as administrator or receiver for corporations entering into bankruptcy. This series consists of records pertaining to his role as trustee for the Reading Railroad Company during 1971-1973.
Box
Correspondence: Chas. E. Bertrand, John P. Clark, Lockwood W. Fogg Jr., Julian R. 25 Greene, Andrew L. Lewis, AW Hesse, Clifford Brenner, Judge J Wm Ditter, Harold Kohn, James M. Symes; Inter-office memos and reports; Bond; Employment inquiries; Confirmation of Trustees; Insurance companies; Creditors’ correspondence; Time sheets.
Accountants’ statements; Annual reports; Appraisals; Borough of Middleport; Capital 26 Improvement Program; Comparison of operations; Compensation-Trustees; Contract-Chas. E. Bertrand; Financial statements; Hurricane Agnes; Hanover Trust Co.; I.C.C. report; legislation; Miscellaneous; New York Stock Exchange; Pension Advisory Board; Dept. of Transportation; Philadelphia Electrical Company; Reading Terminal; Rentals for leased roads; Restex Enterprises; SEPTA; Stockholder’s correspondence; Tunnel- mid-city; US Department of Justice; Underliers.
1973 Trustees’ Plan of Reconstruction; Consultants. 27
Various railroads: Central R.R. of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Northeast 28 Railroads, Penn-Central Railroad; Minutes-Trustees meetings 1972-1973.
1973 Agenda-Trustees’ meetings. 29
1972 Minutes and agenda. 30
Pleadings: Court orders, Petitions of Trustees’, Petitions of Intervenors. 31
Reports; Profit Plans; Feasibility reports. 32
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VII. Personal, (1918-2002). 38.8 Linear feet (; 96 boxes, 3 volumes, 5 flat files). Scope and content note
The only series with subseries in the collection, the personal papers of Richardson Dilworth include military records, correspondence, cancelled checks, papers related to his divorce in 1935, speeches, clippings from Philadelphia newspapers, invitations, greeting cards, photographs, financial statements, stock reports, and documents about his numerous trips abroad. Even though these are mostly records kept and organized by Dilworth himself, there are several documents that were added after his death (e.g., Box 41 contains an issue of The Philadelphia Tribune published one week after Dilworth’s death in 1974).
The Photographs, Prints, and Audio-visual materials subseries contain numerous portraits of Dilworth, his family, his dogs, photos of political campaigns in Philadelphia, as well as many political figures of the era including Herbert H. Hoover, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, and many others. Also in this section of the collection are the original phonograph records and sound reels of several of Dilworth’s speeches, and video reels of two documentary features entitled The First Angry Man, and A Matter of Persuasion. These files have been digitized and can be accessed through HSP’s digital access management system.
A. Military.
Box
Photographs; Memos; Discharge papers. 36
Box
Oversize photographs. Flat file 5
B. Correspondence and Files.
Box
Cancelled checks (1937-1949). 33
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Cancelled checks (1937-1947). 34
Cancelled checks (1938-1947). 35
Cancelled checks (1939-1946); Divorce papers; Agreements; Tax returns; Passports. 37
Cancelled checks (1950-1962). 231
Cancelled checks (1951-1962). 232-233
Correspondence and files (A-B). 38
Correspondence and files (B-C). 39
Correspondence and files (F-G); Washington Square House. 40
House employees: City wage tax, Social Security; Hotels; Hats. 41
Correspondence and files (H-I); Insurance policies and appraisal of house. 42
Correspondence and files (C); Estate of Annie W. Dilworth. 43
Denny Corporation (Washington Square East); Thos. E. Crosson; Estate of Annie W. 44 Dilworth; A.K. Dilworth 1961; A.K. Dilworth accident; A.K. Dilworth-Personal.
A.K. Dilworth-City 1956; 1958; R.D. Family Tree inquiries; Correspondence and files (D- 45 E).
Insurance: Automobile, Aviation, Condominium, Fine Arts, Jewelry, General, Personal 52 accident, Hospitalization, Workmen’s compensation, Life Insurance-government policy; Correspondence and files (J-L).
Correspondence and files (Mc; M); US Marine Corps. 53
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Correspondence and files (N-P); The Philadelphia Contributionship. 54
Correspondence and files (P-R). 55
Correspondence and files (R-S). 56
St. Marks School; Correspondence and files (S). 57
St. Marks School Fund Drive 1971; Correspondence and files (S-V). 58
Correspondence and files (V-Z). 59
Yale Law School Fund Drive 1963. 60
Hospitalization. 87
Personal (1962-1970). 89
Personal (1955-1959); Clippings; Articles. 90
Engagement books (1963-1973). 91
Honorary degrees; 1968 Philadelphia Award; Professorship (UPenn); Professorship 92 (Temple).
Parties; The Rabbit. 93
Inquirer columns (1947-1948); Daily News columns (1973). 94
Daily News columns (1972). 95
Speeches; Speech material; Miscellaneous articles. 96
Speeches; Special articles. 97
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Speeches and Articles. 98
Lincoln National Bank; Kidder-Peabody and Company; Kuhn Loeb and Company. 99
The Petroleum Corporation; Securities. 100
Financial pledges (1972-1973). 101
Speeches (folders labeled Bartlett). 102-103
Correspondence: Stewart Alsop, Walter H. Annenberg, John O’Hara, I.D. Levy, Clifford 104 Brenner, Dr. and Mrs. Irving Cohen, Patrick Dewez, Wm. Benton, Lawrence Foster, Maurice Robert Gross, Theodore G. Kenefick; Driving direction and maps (places of interest); Miscellaneous.
Correspondence: Robert Kent, J. Porter King Jr., John O’Hara, Mrs. John O’Hara, Dr. 105 Edward A. Newman, Phil Regan, Harold E. Kohn, J. Hampden Robb, Edgar Scott, Mrs. Josiah Marvel, Dr. Mark R. Shedd.
Correspondence: Harold S. Vanderbilt, Robert L. Sherrod, I.M. Scott, Reginald B. Taylor, 106 Ruth Zuckerman; Correspondence with radio and TV stations; Correspondence with newspapers; Condominium-Palm Springs-Rentals.
Condominium-Palm Springs: monthly payments, tax receipts, general correspondence; 107 Rizzo biography.
Letters, invitations, greeting cards, receipts, tickets, financial reports, assorted papers, 160-163 membership cards, dividends and stocks, broker’s slips, financial reports, message slips.
Guide newspapers; Wm. Meade; Wm. Meade-Virginia Carroll; Sitting Judges-The Sitting 182 Judge Controversy in the Early 1950s; Articles; Saturday Evening Post article material; 1962; Municipal Court; Names; Housing clippings.
Philadelphia City Planning Commission. 183
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Philadelphia City Planning Commission; PTC (Philadelphia Transportation Company); 184 PTC (Philadelphia Transportation Company)-clippings; Philadelphia General Hospital; House of Correction; [Housing].
Housing-current; Police-Data; Police-Police Data-New Police station buildings; Police- 185 clippings (1950); Police.
Assessments; Highways and streets; F.E.P.C.; Coroner; Councilman vacancies; Debt 186 stabilization; Dumps.
Education; Concessions; Community organizations; Correspondence and files-St. Mark’s 187 School; Personal correspondence-January 10, 1941 to December 31, 1941; Personal miscellaneous (1093 B-2); Personal miscellaneous; University of Pennsylvania-Litigation seminar; Receiver of Taxes W. Frank Marshall.
Notes and letters from Dilworth to his wife Ann; Letters re: Richardson Dilworth’s divorce. 187
Restricted materials
Folders 5-6 of this box (187) are restricted until Deborah Bishop's death.
Civic-Pamphlets re: various cities; Harry A. Kuljian; Romanian groups; Authorities-Data; 188 Rents; Statements re: Rent Ordinance; Airport; City government.
Morris publication (1962); City organization problems; Fusion movements; Young Man of 189 the Year Award (1952); Insurance-liability; Lease-Suburban Station; Dogs; Public Utilities Commission; Correspondence, notes, and clippings (1973); Playgrounds; Recreation.
Recreation; Library; City Licensing; Legalized gambling; Liquor Control Board; Loans; 190 Estate of Ann K. Dilworth; Estate of Ann K. Dilworth-Guardian correspondence.
Estate of Ann K. Dilworth-Guardian correspondence; Estate [Richardson Dilworth]; Police. 191
Prisons; Prisons-prison data. 192
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Health; Health-clippings; City Controller; Fire Department; Police-clippings; Police- 193 clippings (1949); Port of Philadelphia.
Port of Philadelphia; Port of Philadelphia-statements, data; Old Age Pensions; Old Age; 194 “One Man” Clubs; Pennsylvania Plan for Selection and Tenure of Judges.
Parking-Traffic; Negro Groups. 195
Civil Rights; Civil Service; City Manager; Speech [Bartlett]; Alan M. Scaife; Marion 211 Boyer; Gilbert L. Steward; Henry W. Sage; Harvey P. Jolly.
[Hopkinson’s talk]; Robin Hood Dell; W. Sheffield Cowles; Wm. G. Lord; William 212 Boggess; Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Benoist; Alfred E. Bissell; Stephen Y. Hord; Eliza Gallois; Guy Dewez; C. Harvey Bradley.
Meehan Debate; U.A.W. column; James P. McGranery; Massachusetts Institute of 213 Technology/Bethlehem Steel Company; Psychological and Cultural Traits of Soviet Siberia; Labor unions.
Labor unions; Labor unions-correspondence; Labor unions-data; Loyalty Oath-Owen 214 Lattimore/Walter Winchell; Loyalty Oath-clippings.
Loyalty Oath-clippings; Joseph R. McCarthy; Joseph R. McCarthy-clippings; Joseph 215 R. McCarthy-miscellaneous; Magistrates/Magistrate Court; Austin Meehan; Meehan investigation.
Box
Broadside-The Philadelphia Award (1968). Flat file 2
Andrea Doria clippings (1948-50s). Flat file 3
Woodrow Wilson accolade poster. Flat file 6
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Box
City Controller. 234 (oversize)
Box
The Richardson Dilworth Story by Alex Morris [signed copy]. 2
Richardson Dilworth’s Bible, signed by Cabinet and Mayor’s office members (1956). 3
Inscribed copy of Stephen Girard Founder 1750-1831 by Cheesman A. Herrick (1945). 4
C. Trips.
Box
Palm Springs trips; Montreal, Canada-Expo 1967. 108
1964 World’s Fair; West Coast 1963; West Coast 1962; Seattle; Jamaica trips; Puerto Rico; 109 Mexico.
Washington-Williamsburg; West Coast (1955); Corsica; Greek Island; Italy-Spain- 110 Germany-France-England.
Orient trip; France and Rhine; Russian trip. 111
Scandinavian trip; Middle East trip (Andrea Doria); South America; Proposed trips and trip 112 clippings.
Les Baux trip; Barge Canal trip; Australia; European trip (1971). 113
North Cape cruise; Europe-Morocco; London; South America (1968); European trip 114 (1968).
European trip (1966); European trip (1967). 115
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D. Airport International Terminal.
Box
Photographs; Sketches, blueprints, etc.; Agreement with sculptor; Contributions; Possible 196 contributors; Letters; Trust agreement; Lists; Personal.
Personal. 197
E. Photographs, Prints, and Audio-visual materials.
Box
Photographs. 220-223
Photographs, prints, negatives. 224
Photograph album-The Philadelphia Award (1968). 225
GSP album; photographs, prints, photocopies of photos, envelopes. 226
Photographs and negatives. 227
Photographs-oversize. 228
Prints-oversize. 229
16" Phonographs discs--Meehan/Dilworth Debate (1949); Quaker Network address, 248a sponsored by the Committee for Philadelphia (1955).
10", 12" Phonographs discs--WFIL Election Night Specials (1947); Election Speech 248b (1947); WFIL Program sponsored by Democratic City Committee (1947); WIP Famous Philadelphians (1952); WTPA Capitol Correspondents (1955); WIP Election Night (1956).
Film--Dilworth's Inauguration (1956). 248c
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A Matter of Persuasion [documentary film]. 248d
The First Angry Man [documentary film]. 248e
Film--Black and White--Dilworth campaining (undated). 248f
Film--Black and White, silent--Dilworth vs Longstreth campaing (1955). 248g
Audio Reels--Republican candidates challenging and criticizing Dilworth (circa 1952); 248h RD Speech at Greater Philadelphia Movement Dinner (1955); WCAU--Man of the Day (undated).
F. Family members.
Box
Ann K. Dilworth--Social; Ann K. Dilworth--letters, telegrams, and sympathy cards; L.G. 197 Hill--Estate of Richardson Dilworth, correspondence with children; Judge Hill--R.D. Gallery at The Athenaeum; Mr. Lees--Resolution, Vestry of the Church of St. Martin-in- the-Fields; Deborah [Dilworth] [Newbold] Bishop--clippings, letters, pamphlets; Letters to Mrs. Robert W. Lees; Lees family photographs; Miscellaneous.
G. Miscellaneous.
Box
Biographical sketches; Clippings; Campaign material; Correspondence; Joseph McNaney, 165 Drew University; College unrest, Kingman Brewster; Photographs and Certificates; Dedications-Airport Terminal and Dilworth Plaza; Envelopes; Tickets; Schedules; Stocks; Taxes; Morris Duane Memorial Address (1974); Philadelphia Inquirer article (1989).
Assorted membership cards; Datebooks/Address books (1962-1971); Luggage tag; 166 Campaign button; Signature rubber stamp.
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Metal plaques (1962-1965): Young Democratic Club of Delaware County; Kensington 167A Business Community; Chestnut Street Association; Overbrook Park Wolfe Baron Lodge; Mario Lanza Institute.
Diplomas; Honorary Degrees; Certificates. 167B
Magazines: The New Yorker (1947); Greater Philadelphia (1962, 1964, 1967); Time 168 (1962); Newsweek (1962); The Telephone News (1962); Suburban Life North (1968); The Shingle (1982); The Philadelphia Lawyer (2002).
Magazines: Life (1947, 1950, 1954); Color (1955); Collier’s (1956); Saturday Evening Post 169 (1959, 1962); Town & Country (1961); “Partners in Pennsylvania’s Progress” Paid Political Section (1962); Sunday Bulletin Magazine (1965); Philadelphia Inquirer Today (1970).
Box
Diplomas; Honorary Degrees; Certificates. Flat file 4
Box
Articles from: Saturday Evening Post (1962), Look magazine (1969); General Return of 234 Votes Polled at the November and Special Election, Philadelphia (November 3, 1959); (oversize) Newspaper clippings (1962-1968); Newspaper clippings (1949-1955); Newspaper clippings (1962-1970); Newspaper clippings (1982); Unknown Photographs [Lees family?]; Certificates; Commencement program; Honoris Causa; Oath of Office; Response to Mr. Shriver.
VIII. Legal, (1946-1973). 3.6 Linear feet (; 9 boxes, 1 volume). Scope and content note
This series features legal documents pertaining to several cases Dilworth counseled on as well as papers related to the administration of his firm and the estate of his wife’s grandfather Otto Young. There are
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also several folders of court transcriptions and other documents pertaining to Police corruption during the years Dilworth served as Philadelphia District Attorney.
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Otto Young Estate; Reading Anthracite Co.; Young Family Tree. 46
Norman D. Denny; P.R. Mallory and Co.; Christine J. Statos et al vs. James Jordan; TV 47 Guide; Lincoln National Bank vs. PNB; Fels Center; Airport Parking Co. of America; Harper vs. Fitzpatrick; Reading Railroad; Hertz Drive-it-yourself; Danion-Rockower cases; Pan Am crash cases; Robert L. Goethe; Curtis Publishing Co.; Simpson-Strouse matter; Robert J. Gatti; Philadelphia Gas Works memorandums; Judge James J. Curran; Reading Anthracite Co.
Nathan Stup vs. Dilworth; Progressive Party vs. Dilworth; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes- 178 Barre Independent; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Witnesses; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Free Work; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-The Advertisement; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Bills for work on Dreier’s house; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Dreier’s (Data); Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-The Law; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes- Barre Independent-Letters; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Pleadings; Anthony B. Dreier vs. Wilkes-Barre Independent-Miscellaneous; Doctor’s Hospital vs. Blue Cross.
District Attorney-Publications; District Attorney-clippings; District Attorney-Pamphlets, 179 etc.; District Attorney-Report, Financial Program; District Attorney Office-Gran Jury Police Probe; District Attorney Office-Gran Jury Police Probe-General Memoranda; “Clean-Up”, June, 1948; “Clean-Up”, June, 1948-clippings; Dickinson Law Review; The Shingle Article.
District Attorney Office-Gran Jury Police Probe; Ann K. Dilworth-Estate of Otto Young, 179 Estate of Marie Young Pratt; Joseph Laskowski vs. Dilworth-Slander; Joseph Laskowski vs. Dilworth-Slander-Correspondence; Joseph Laskowski vs. Dilworth-Slander-Pleadings.
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District Attorney Office-Gran Jury Police Probe. 234 (oversize)
Firm statements and memos; Firm Agreement (7/3/69); Dilworth Paxson Kalish Green 181 Firm Agreement; D.P.K.K.D. Executive Committee.
Wilhelm F. Knauer vs. Richardson Dilworth (4596); V.B. File; pleadings. 218
Wilhelm F. Knauer vs. Richardson Dilworth (4596)-correspondence; investigation; briefs 219 and legal memoranda; re: Daily News petition to intervene; notes and memoranda; 1955 Mayoralty campaign-opposition; Grand Jury-Police.
Newspapers (Wilkes-Barre, 1952). 251
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Dickinson Law Review (March, 1955). 5
IX. Board of Education, (1965-1971). 17.6 Linear feet (; 44 boxes). Scope and content note
Richardson Dilworth served as president of the Philadelphia Board of Education for the period of 1965-1972. This series contains his office records during that time.
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1967-1968 (A-D). 116
1967-1968 (E-L). 117
1967-1968 (M-P). 118
1967-1968 (P-S). 119
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1967-1968 (S-Z). 120
1965-1967 (A-B). 121
1965-1967 (B). 122
1965-1967 (B-C). 124
1965-1967 (C-F). 125
1965-1967 (B). 123
1965-1967 (F-G). 126
1965-1967 (H-J). 127
1965-1967 (K-N). 128
1965-1967 (N). 129
1965-1967 (N-P). 130
1965-1967 (P). 131
1965-1967 (P-R). 132
1965-1967 (R-S). 133
1965-1967 (S-T). 134
1965-1967 (T). 135
1965-1967 (T-W). 136
1965-1967 (W-Z; Taxes; loose papers found while processing). 137
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Media Correspondence, Evening and Sunday Bulletin; Radio and TV coverage, KYW, 138 WCAU, WFIL, Miscellaneous stations.
Correspondence: Henry H. Nichols; Mrs. Lawrence I. Boonin; Gerald A. Gleason, Jr.; Mrs. 139 A.M. Greenfield; George Hutt; William Ross; Robert M. Sebastian; Alec Washco, Jr.; New Board Correspondence; Clippings and Biographies; Mayor’s Nominating Panel; Philip Davidoff.
Bank Officers; Philadelphia Inquirer; Dr. Mark R. Shedd; Cabinet Agenda and Minutes 140 1968-1971; Mrs. Benjamin Bennett; Evening Schools; Leonard J. Hoffman; School Riots: Clippings and correspondence; Government and civic groups; Cecil Moore; Clippings; Citizen correspondence; Clippings; Rizzo.
October 1968 School Disturbances; School attendance officers; 1970 Summer School; 141 Violence in schools; Vocational Education; Tax memos and data; Across-the-Bar Liquor Tax; 1970 Tax Suits; November 1969 Bond Question.
1969 School Bond Issue; 1968-1969 Tax problems, Correspondence with Legislators, 142 Mayor and City Council, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Chamber of Commerce; Dilworth memos re: Tax problems; Pleadings; Richard C. Bond Committee; Citizen Taxpayers’ Letters; Stock Transfer Tax.
1967 School Tax Controversy; Correspondence with Banks, State and City Officials, Civic 143 groups, and Local Republicans; Proposed Tax Legislation; Teachers’ Strike 1970; Audit Committee - City Council; Financial Advisory Committee; Budget and Security proposals- race relations; Regionalism; Moratorium Day 1969; Board’s Accomplishments.
1971-1972 Proposed Budget; Retreats; Budget Cuts; Indoor After-Hours Recreation; Art 144 and Music programs; 1971 Budget Cuts; Operating Budget 1969-1970; Capital Program 1969-1970.
Board of Education. 145
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Arrangement note
Operating Budgets (1967-1972)
Proposed Capital Budgets (1969-1975)
Citizen Correspondence
Barry Cardonick
School Volunteers Program
Alessandroni School (proposed)
Kensington High School (proposed)
South Philadelphia High School (proposed)
Conshohocken Avenue and Monument Road
Anderson School
John Bartram High School
Belmont School
Birney School
Edward Bok School
Henry Armitt Brown School
Charles Carroll High School
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Central High School
Board of Education-Schools. 146
Arrangement note
Claghorn Elementary School
Grover Cleveland Public School
Russell H. Conwell School
Creighton School
Kennedy C. Crossan School
Dobbins High School
Charles R. Drew School
Eastwick School
Thomas Edison High School
F.S. Edmonds School
Elkin School
Farrell School
Samuel S. Fels Junior High School
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FitzSimmons Junior High School
Frankford High School
Benjamin Franklin High School
Samuel Gompers School
Germantown High School
Gratz High School
Gillespie Junior High School
Joseph J. Greenberg School
Hackett School
Harrington School
Hartranft School
Joseph P. Hill School
High School for Girls
Houston School
William H. Hunter Elementary School
Andrew Jackson School
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John B. Kelly School
Kensington Girls High School
Kinsey School
E.B. Kirkbride School
Lafayette School
Alain Locke School
Lamberton School
Leeds Junior High School
Lincoln High School
Lingelbach School
Longfellow School (Day Treatment Center)
Longstreth School
John F. McCloskey School
McCall School
William B. Mann School
Mastbaum School
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Mantua-Powelton Mini-School
Northeast High School
S. Weir Mitchell School
Moffet School
Morton School
“High School USA” film
Olney High School
Overbrook Cluster Project
Overbrook High School
Paxson Parkway Elementary School
Dr. John Bremer
Board of Education-schools. 147
Arrangement note
Pennsylvania Advancement School
Parkway School
William Penn High School
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Wagner Junior High School
The Philadelphia School
Pennypacker School
Pickett Middle School
James Rhoads School
Roxborough High School
Sayre Junior High School
Walter Biddle Saul High School of Agricultural Science
Shallcross School
Shawmont School
Tilden Middle School
George Washington High School
Wanamaker Junior High School
Widener Memorial School
Wynnefield Schools
The Portal School
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West Philadelphia High School - Fishman Controversy; South Philadelphia High School; 148 Appointment of Benito A. Farnese; Joseph N. Brancato; Theodore Beck; Hate letters.
Referrals (A-Z). 149
Agreement between School District and City; Harrisburg correspondence; Bill 717 150 statements; Categorical Aid Bill; Bill 717 media correspondence; House Bill 1317, 1318, 806; Collaborative Study-Handicapped children; Collaborative Study Report; 7.6 Million Federal Grant; Remedial Gym.
Desegregation; Decentralization. 151
Get-set: Employees, Head Start outreach; Teacher’s Union: Correspondence, Philadelphia 152 Federation of Teaches (AFL), Teacher’s contract (1968), clippings, statements re: Teacher’s strike, Philadelphia Teacher’s Association, Celia Pincus, notes-Teacher’s strike.
Board of Education. 153
Arrangement note
Discipline
Bill of Rights-students
Flag raisings in schools
Memorial schools-naming of
Moslem children
Philadelphia Plan
Homosexual teachers
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School Administrator’s Alliance
Testing
Philadelphia Principals Association: Correspondence, miscellaneous
Teacher’s Union Negotiations (1970): Correspondence-civic groups, Correspondence-City and State officials, Home and School associations, Citizen correspondence, Mediators, Statements, Clippings, Home and School Council vs. P.F.T. and Board of Education, Notes, Form letters, Agreements
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission: Pleadings, Statements, Correspondence, 154 Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission vs. The School District of Philadelphia; Tutorial Project; City Hall Offices files: January-May 1968, Art Commission, July- December 1969, 1970-1971.
City Hall Offices files: Harry Norwich, City Council-General, D’Ortona-September 1966 155 to December 1968, D’Ortona-President of City Council, City Council January-June 1970, City Council January-August 1968, City Council September-December 1968, City Hall Offices files-June 1968 to June 1969.
City Hall Offices files-June 1968 to June 1969; City Council January-December 1969; 156 Mayor Tate February-December 1969; Mayor Tate January-December 1968.
Mayor Tate January-December 1968; Pennsylvania Government-General; Commonwealth 157 Priorities Commission-Harrisburg.
Protest letters and hate mail; Correspondence, memos, files (1965-1968). 158
Correspondence, memos, files (1965-1968). 159
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Lincoln High School Master Plan; Poems-Young Afro Americans (September 1968). 234 (oversize)
X. Scrapbooks, (1881-1974, undated). 5.6 Linear feet (; 13 boxes). Scope and content note
Scrapbooks collected by Richardson Dilworth and other family members, including two copies of a 1974 memorial scrapbook commissioned by the family.
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Social Events (circa 1881-1946). 235
Philadelphia politics (undated). 236
1949 Scrapbook. 237
1955 Mayoralty Campaign (March 9 to September 30). 238
1955 Mayoralty Campaign (October 1 to November 10). 239
1947 Campaign; 1949 Campaign; 1950 Campaign. 240-242
1962 Scrapbook. 243
General. 244
1959 Scrapbook. 245-246
Richardson Dilworth 1974 Memorial scrapbook (2 copies). 247
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