textual records
AP075.S1.1954.PR01.004
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Brochure "A New Dimension in Playground Planning!" produced by the Creative Playthings. Original folder entitled "PLAY - PHILADELPHIA".
circa 1954
Brochure on playgrounds with reproductions of landscape plans, Recreational area, 18th and Bigler Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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AP075.S1.1954.PR01.004
Description:
Brochure "A New Dimension in Playground Planning!" produced by the Creative Playthings. Original folder entitled "PLAY - PHILADELPHIA".
textual records
circa 1954
textual records
Collected documentation and texts by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for children playgrounds projects
AP075.S4.SS1.039
Description:
Original folder entitled "HISTORY OF PLAY SPACE / CHO.".
1978-1991
Collected documentation and texts by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for children playgrounds projects
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AP075.S4.SS1.039
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Original folder entitled "HISTORY OF PLAY SPACE / CHO.".
textual records
1978-1991
textual records
AP075.S3.SS1.096
1970-2005
Texts of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for the lectures on playgrounds and sustainable landscape architecture
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AP075.S3.SS1.096
textual records
1970-2005
textual records
AP075.S4.SS1.018
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY PRESS/PUBLICITY".
1970s
Collected press clippings and publicity on children play for children playgrounds projects
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AP075.S4.SS1.018
Description:
Original folder entitled "PLAY PRESS/PUBLICITY".
textual records
1970s
textual records
Collected documentation from Children's Play Ressource Centre for children playgrounds projects
AP075.S4.SS1.016
Description:
Original folder entitled "CHILDREN'S PLAY RESSOURCES CENTRE".
1979-1982
Collected documentation from Children's Play Ressource Centre for children playgrounds projects
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AP075.S4.SS1.016
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Original folder entitled "CHILDREN'S PLAY RESSOURCES CENTRE".
textual records
1979-1982
ARCH286630
July 1920
archives
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Fonds
AP075
Synopsis:
The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
1936-2021
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds
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AP075
Synopsis:
The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
archives
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Fonds
1936-2021
articles
Playing it Safe
Keep Safe
Keep Safe, playgrounds, safety, risk, regulation, public space, control, contemporary playground design,
8 July 2024
Playing it Safe
Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan, and Angie Door on the creation of play subjects and playgrounds
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Keep Safe
drawings, photographs
AP075.S1.1954.PR01.001
Description:
Presentation panel with plan of area and photographic views of the playground and other photographs of the playground.
1954
Photographs and presentation panel, Recreational area, 18th and Bigler Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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AP075.S1.1954.PR01.001
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Presentation panel with plan of area and photographic views of the playground and other photographs of the playground.
drawings, photographs
1954
Project
AP075.S1.2013.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the Ecole Pauline-Johnson playground, located at the corner of Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with Susan Herrington as consulting landscape architect and the landscape architectural firm Atelier Anonymus, Landscape. The project consisted in re-imagining and re-designing the school playground to create a creative play environment. Oberlander's proposal included a logs and rocks creative play area, a seating area, and replanting of trees at the end of the playground on the 21st Street side. The project series contains a landscape sketch of the playground by Oberlander, project proposals by the team, correspondence with architects, consultants and contractors, documentation and research material and press.
Ecole Pauline-Johnson, West Vancouver, British Columbia (2013-2015)
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AP075.S1.2013.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the Ecole Pauline-Johnson playground, located at the corner of Jefferson Street and 21st Street, in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with Susan Herrington as consulting landscape architect and the landscape architectural firm Atelier Anonymus, Landscape. The project consisted in re-imagining and re-designing the school playground to create a creative play environment. Oberlander's proposal included a logs and rocks creative play area, a seating area, and replanting of trees at the end of the playground on the 21st Street side. The project series contains a landscape sketch of the playground by Oberlander, project proposals by the team, correspondence with architects, consultants and contractors, documentation and research material and press.
Project