Scope of the Archival Collection

Minutes of the board and its committees; information on founders, board members, stockholders, and the Pennsylvania Academicians.
Annual Reports, Charter, by laws, and legal papers.
Office files of the administrators, curators, deans of the school; correspondence with artists, collectors, and many others.
Financial records.
Clipping files, scrapbooks, press releases.
School records: student records, complete run of the school catalogues, faculty minutes and biographical information on faculty members.
Exhibition records: catalogues and general records of the Academy's long exhibition history, including the Annuals 1811-1969, special exhibitions 1807 to the present, exhibitions of student work and contemporary local artists.
Photographs of exhibition installations, school activities, special events, buildings, artists, and administrators.
Information on the Academy's historic buildings.
Manuscripts and personal papers of artists and art organizations.