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WRIGHT STUDY ON THE MIDWAY GARDENS

WRIGHT STUDY ON THE MIDWAY GARDENS DISH

Edward C. Waller was an important early Wright patron. He lived in River Forest near the Wright's William Winslow house. Waller sold Winslow the property upon which his home was built. Waller commissioned several projects to be designed by Wright: the Francisco Terrace Apartments 1895 (S.030) (since demolished);   the Waller Apartments 1895 (S.031); the remodeling of his home in River Forest 1899 (S.047); the Edward C. Waller Gates (S.065) and Stables (S.066) 1901; and the Edward C. Waller Bathing Pavilion 1909 (S.166).  Waller's son Edward C. Jr. commissioned Midway Gardens 1913 (S.180).       Midway Gardens. Designed in 1913, built in 1914, demolished in 1929. It experienced a successful first season in 1914, but that same winter began to feel the chill of World War I in Europe. Night life throughout Chicago suffered. By 1916 matters had not improved. Anna Pavlova, one of the century's greatest ballerinas, danced that season at the Gardens, yet, even her talents could not restore the establishment's initial success. So, Midway Gardens was sold to the Edelweiss Brewing Company in 1916 and turned into a beer garden.        Mr. Wright's well-planned architectural designs and decorations were altered and defaced in an effort by the brewing company to attract an audience. This effort proved unsuccessful. The final blow came in 1920 when Prohibition was declared. Since the open-air patios and the enclosed Winter Gardens were far too visible to be converted to a speakeasy, ownership of the Midway Gardens continued to change hands several times, serving once as a garage and a car wash. The building was finally closed and demolished in October of 1929.        Midway Gardens was bulldozed into Lake Michigan as break wall. The building didn't go down without a fight. Two wrecking companies went out of business trying to demolish the concrete   structure. The company that finally took it down still lost a considerable amount of money on the job.        The Sprites were thought to be lost forever. Then sometime after World War II, word reached Taliesin, the original estate and Frank Lloyd Wright School in Spring Green, Wisconsin, that a few of the Sprites had been saved and were lying in pieces in a farmer's field in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. A member of the Midway Gardens wrecking crew either rescued the Sprites from the lake or snatched them before they were destroyed. For years they had lain in his farm field. Taliesin recovered the three damaged Sprites and shipped them to the Stillwater, Minnesota home of Don Lovness, a client and friend of the Wright's. Lovness and his wife restored two 5 to 6-foot Sprites and a 12-foot Sprite. For over 20 years, these figures guarded their Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home.        In 1980, Mrs. Wright built a garden at Taliesin West and had the Sprites shipped to Phoenix for placement. After restoration and recasting work was done on these wandering Sprites, Taliesin Associated Architects donated eight Sprites, each standing 6 feet tall and weighing 450 pounds, to the Arizona Biltmore in October of 1985.        For a different account see the “Dawn Manor” article #15.

ALFONSO & MARGARET IANNELLI
	Alfonso Iannelli (1925) Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965). Born to a poor shoemaker in Andretta, Italy, Alfonso Iannelli studied the techniques of the traveling artists who stayed at his parent's small inn. His father then set off alone for America to build a new life for the family. In 1898, Iannelli, his mother and three brothers finally joined him in Newark, New Jersey, where Alfonso was soon apprenticed to a jeweler and by 1900, to the famous sculptor, Gutzon Borglum (Mt. Rushmore). Working with Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Iannelli to create sculpture that was totally integrated into a cohesive, organic architectural artwork. Wright saw Iannelli as a talented interpreter of his design language and a worthy partner to Richard Bock, his usual sculptor.  Wright passed off all the sculpture as his own in the ensuing publicity, crushing Iannelli and depriving him of any credit in what could have been his triumphant Chicago debut. When Wright later asked him to create the sculpture for his Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Iannelli refused, an action he later came to regret.

ARTIFACTS
	Date: Circa 1914 Title: Midway Gardens Dish (Midway Gardens, 1913 - S.180). Description: Silver serving dish. Manufactured by Meriden Britannia Company. Circa 1914. More information on Midway Gardens dish.  For more information on Midway Gardens see our Wright Study. Size: 5.5" x 1". Inner bowl 3.75". S#: 0124.11.0110

BOOKS
	Date: 1991 Title: Trademarks of Base-Metal Tableware. Late 18th century to circa 1900 (including marks on Britannia metal, iron, steel, cooper alloys and silver-plated goods) (Copyright Ministry of Supply and Services Canada. Published under the authority of the Ministry of the Environment, Ottawa, 1991) Author: Woodhead, Eileen Description: Invaluable for dating the marking on the bottom of the Midway Gardens dish. (For more information see our Wright study on the Midway gardens dish.) Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 331 ST#: 1991.58.1010
	Date: 1998 Title: Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens  (Hard Cover - DJ) Author: Kruty, Paul Description: Original HC List Price $60.00.  (First Edition) Size: Pages: Pp 362 ST#: 1998.27.0404

DOCUMENTS
Midway Gardens Correspondence (Fifteen Items, 21 sheets) These documents are discussed in “Frank Lloyd Wright, A Biography by Finis Farr” 1961, Pp 151-7; And “Prairie School Review” Fourth Quarter 1965, Pp 5-20.
	Date: 1914 Title: Request for remittance from E. C. Waller, Jr. Author: Alfonso Iannelli’s “Secretary” Description: 1) Vintage carbon of request for remittance from Alfonso Iannelli’s “Secretary” to E. C. Waller, Jr. who commissioned Midway Gardens, dated August 5, 1914.        “Mr. Iannelli requested me to write you regarding the remittance of $400.00 you had agreed to send him some days ago.”  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0124.04.0407
	Date: 1914 Title: Second request for remittance from E. C. Waller, Jr. Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 2) Vintage carbon of second request for remittance from Alfonso Iannelli to E. C. Waller, Jr. dated August 17, 1914.        “I have had no word from you in response to my letter of August 5th, asking that the long-promised remittance of $400.00 be sent me at once, as I was very much in need of the money.”  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0124.05.0407
	Date: 1914 Title: Letter from Alfonso Iannelli to John Lloyd Wright Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 3) Unrelated, but included with the group of documents.  Vintage carbon of letter from Alfonso Iannelli to John Lloyd Wright regarding Workingmann's Hotel sculptures, dated October 31, 1914. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0124.06.0407
	Date: 1914 Title: Letter from Iannelli to Wright's assistant requesting payment Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 4) Vintage carbon from Alfonso Iannelli to Harry F. Robinson (assistant to Frank Lloyd Wright) requesting "first cash payment", dated November 5, 1914.        “According to the agreement in the Midway Gardens Matter signed by Mr Iannelli, the first cash payment is due today, and we trust you will not overlook us.  The total amount dew us, (according to your letter of Oct. 14th) is $350, and we shall be more than glad to receive a payment on account.”  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0124.07.0407
	Date: 1915 Title: Original Taliesin envelope postmarked January 21, 1915 Author: Possibly from Frank Lloyd Wright Description: 5) Original Taliesin envelope with embossed red square addressed to Alfonso Iannelli possibly from Frank Lloyd Wright, postmarked Chicago - January 21, 1915. Possibly included in this group of documents because it was the envelope in which payment was received, kept as a reminder that payment was received.  (Note - Watermark: “Crane’s 1914 Japanese Linen”)  Size: 8.75 x 4.4 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0128.03.0407
	Date: 1915 Title: Letter from Wright to Iannelli regarding credit for the sculptures Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: 6) Vintage typescript of an original handwritten letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alfonso Iannelli regarding a dispute over credit for the sculptures, dated May 17, 1915.  In the May 1915 issue of “The International Studio” page 79-83, the caption under the photographs of Sprites reads “Sprites, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Executed by A. Jannelli”.  The caption under the photograph of a mural reads “Designed and Executed by John Lloyd Wright”.  In an earlier correspondence, Iannelli must have questioned the “mistake” in the caption.  Wright responds by saying “The mistake was regarding John’s ‘designing’ the mural when he only put it on the wall, and neither of us knows how it happened to be printed as it was.”.        Wright defines “design”: “I think I will never have anyone working on my work where I do not give the idea and fashion the style of the work to my own feeling. I suppose this is designing it.”  He goes on with a conciliatory attitude, attempting to smooth things: “But still there is something more left than executing it for painter and sculpture. I do not know what would be fair.        Perhaps you can suggest something.” In his defense, Wright says: “I shall never put myself in any position where I take to myself any credit for work not mine. So far the credits have all been going the other way and I intend to keep them going that way.”        But then Wright questions Iannelli’s integrity: “You know the disposition of the human animal is to inch in these matters and intellectual integrity among artists, when it comes to acknowledging their share in another’s work, is generally a figment of the optimistic brain. I hope you are not one of the type. I believe I have never yet “picked” another’s brains to my own advantage.” Wright finally ends on a conciliatory note: “With anticipation of pleasant times to come...”. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0128.04.0407
	Date: 1915 Title: Response from Iannelli to Wright, Page 2 Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 7) Vintage carbon of the second page of the response from Alfonso Iannelli to Frank Lloyd Wright.  This letter is reprinted in part in “Frank Lloyd Wright, A Biography by Finis Farr” 1961, Pp 152-4.        In 1915, Iannelli would have been 27, Wright 46.  Wright was much more established then Iannelli.  Iannelli begins be saying “First - my profound respect for you as a great architect, and one to whom I owe much of my point of view, which to me is invaluable and beyond words of expression, and which I hope I shall not lose sight of in my analysis of this situation.” He argues that while Wright conceptualized the figures “... you suggested the idea of the geometric forms to be used in these groups.  I designed these groups in pencil and showed them to you and you approved of them, and they were carried through hardly without a change.”        His solution is “... Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect - A. Iannelli, Sculpture...”  “The one thing which is hard for me to understand, is that you above all others, should allow such a mistake or such a misunderstanding of the actual condition; and the part which hurts me the most is the terrible blow to my conception of you as a man, if this is true.” Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 0128.05.0407

Envelope Page 2	Page 1 Page 3 Page 4 Date: 1915 Title: Photograph of Wright's Envelope and four page Letter to Iannelli Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: 8) Five B&W photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's original letter and envelope to Alfonso Iannelli with thumbnail sketches of Midway Garden figures, postmarked May 26, 1915. This is one of the most revealing exchanges between a great architect and a brilliant sculptor. The "Sprites" for Midway Gardens are among the earliest cubist-constuctivist sculptures in the U.S., predating or coinciding with the Amory Show, which traveled from New York to Chicago in 1913.        Wright begins “...but my work went a little further than you now imagine or suggest. ...it was my suggestion and a thing I have tried to do many times before and long ago - a desire intensified by my visit to Metzner - a desire I worked at with Bock as he knows - a desire which is imperfectly attained in the present figures - an old motif of mine which I suggested to you and helped you by criticism to realize upon - to a certain extent. I am not satisfied yet with that ‘extent’.  In these cases, I understand the nature of creative impulses, these works were certainly ‘designed’ by me - they were more than executed by you.” In Wright’s thinking as an architect, the analogy might be that he designs the house or structure, then the draftsman and engineers create the blue prints, and the contractor builds the building. But the design and concept is the architects.        Wright explains it this way, “I would have arrived at something just the same so far as ‘designs’ went had you remained in Los Angeles, but not so sympathetic in detail or so successful in expression. The ‘ideas’ I repeat are mine - their ‘expression’ yours. I think these are the facts. Beethoven wrote the piece we’ll say - Paderewski played it.        Wright comes to the same conclusion that Iannelli first suggested, “I think that Wright, Architect- Iannelli, Sculptor - is the nearest to a solution.”        Note: Iannelli’s response to Wright is printed on pages 154-6 “Frank Lloyd Wright, A Biography by Finis Farr” 1961.  According to Farr, page 157, Wright does not respond and Iannelli lets the matter drop.  “Needless to say Wright never again offered to collaborate with Alfonso Iannelli.”  Size: 8.5 x 8.5 Pages: Pp 4 plus Envelope S#: 0128.06.0407
	Date: 1915 Title: Original typescript of the above letter (#8) dated May 26, 1915 Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: 9) Original typescript of the above letter (#8) dated May 26, 1915. Size: Two sheets 8.5 x 11. Pages: Pp 2 S#: 0128.07.0407
	Date: 1960 Title: Alfonso Iannelli to John Lloyd Wright, November 15, 1960 Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 10) Vintage carbon of letter from Alfonso Iannelli to John Lloyd Wright relating to the discussions Iannelli had with his father in the letters above numbers 6 (May 17, 1915), 7, 8 & 9 (May 26, 1915), dated November 15, 1960.        “Did you see the article which appears in the Architectural Record, October 1960, on your father’s work and the references to my part on the Midway Gardens?  It seems that a similar one appeared in the Horizon Magazine September, 1960.  Barry called it to my attention and thought it would be well for us to advise these publications on the corrections to be made.  Coming from us - what do you think?”  After 45 years, Iannelli is still bothered by not receiving what he feels is credit for the work he did on the Midway Garden sprites.  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 1458.21.0407
	Date: 1960 Title: Alfonso Iannelli to James Marston Fitch, November 22, 1960 Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 11) Two page vintage carbon of letter from Alfonso Iannelli to James Marston Fitch, Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, concerning the article he wrote in Horizon Magazine, September, 1960.  Once again regarding Midway Gardens and the credit of the sculptures), dated November 22, 1960.        “This matter of who contributed what, was the subject of four or five letters between Mr. Wright and me immediately after the first publication of article on the Midway Gardens in “The International Studio” issue May 1915.  ‘Designed by F.L. Wright - Executed by A. Ianelli.’  ...Wright states ‘I think that Wright - Architect, Iannelli - Sculptor, is nearest to a solution. I should have put is so, were it left to me.”  Two sheets.  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 2 S#: 1458.22.0407
	Date: Circa 1960 Title: Iannelli Studios envelope (Circa 1960) Description: 12) Iannelli Studios envelope that contained this set of original letters. (Circa 1960) Size: 11.75 x 8.8 Pages: S#: 1458.23.0407
	Date: 1961 Title: 13) "The Midway Gardens, 1914 - 1929" Author: 3) Fern, Alan M;  4) Iannelli, Alfonso;  5) John Lloyd Wright;  6) Wright, Frank Lloyd Description: An exhibition of the building by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the sculpture by Alfonso Iannelli.  April 24 - May 20, 1961, Lexington Hall Gallery, 5831 University Avenue. Sponsored by the College Humanities Staff, The University of Chicago. Includes:  1) Acknowledgments   2) Materials of Exhibition    3) “The Midway Gardens”   4) “Architecture and Sculpture in the Making of Midway Gardens”   5) “A letter to Mr. Iannelli from John Lloyd Wright” dated June 10, 1954   6) “Frank Lloyd Wright, on Midway Gardens” three excepts from his books   7) “Table of Illustrations” which includes the Cover and Figure 1-9.   8) Figure 1-9.  Includes five photographs and six illustrations.  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 17 S#: 1526.08.0407
	Date: 1961 Title: Alfonso Iannelli to James Marston Fitch, April 25, 1961 Author: Iannelli, Alfonso Description: 14) Vintage carbon of letter from Alfonso Iannelli to historian James Marston Fitch, dated April 25, 1961, one day after the exhibition started.  “Enclosed is catalogue of the exhibit on the Midway Gardens.”  His endeavor to bolster his position. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 1526.09.0407
	Date: Circa 1955 Title: Dawn Manor, site of Midway Garden Sprites. (Circa 1955) Author: Description: 15) Photocopy of article on Dawn Manor, site of Midway Garden Sprites. (Circa 1955)  “Around Dawn Manor cluster many memories of Mrs. Raab’s good friend, Frank Lloyd Wright. Among the flowers beside the drive stand five statues of laughing girls. These charming figures were cast in cement by Mr. Wright, the first person ever to sculpture in cement. They are of his daughter-in-law, and twelve of them were originally made for decorations in Midway Gardens of Chicago. Later they were purchased by Mrs. Raab, who gave half of them to Mr. Wright for his Theater at Taliesin.”  Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 1 S#: 1092.16.0407

PHOTOGRAPHS
	Date: 1914 Title: Midway Garden Sprite.  Description: Chicago Architectural Photographing Company, Chicago.  Original gelatin silver photograph printed by photographer Clarence Fuermann (1883-1983).  Printed in the early 1960s from the original negative (1913-14).  Clarence Fuermann of Henry Fuermann and Sons.  The original image was published in “The Life-Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright” 1925, page 76, center. Size: 8 x 10 S#: 1407.01.0406
	Date: 1914 Title: Midway Gardens Summer Garden 1914. Description: Photographed by Henry Fuermann & Sons in September 1914. The Southeast corner of the interior, viewed from the North Terrace looking out over the Summer Garden. The Winter Garden on the left, the South Belvedere is in the center, and the South Arcade is on the right. Vases, Totem poles and Light Tree are visible in the foreground. Label pasted to verso: "Photo caption: Nostalgia buffs will get a glimpse of the past at the flower show where ‘Memories of Midway Gardens’ has been recreated by the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation. This unique entertainment complex was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1914 and located near the University of Chicago. The original Midway Gardens (pictured here) was a center for good entertainment, food and music and was designed by Wright as a synthesis of architecture, sculpture and painting. The mini-Midway gardens at the Flower Show was designed by Joe Karr and Associates who designed the courtyard garden at Glessner House, home of the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation, 1800 S. Prairie Avenue." Stamped on verso: Mar 29 1973". Acquired from the archives of the Chicago Tribune. Size: Original 10 x 8 B&W photograph. S#: 0124.14.1211
	Date: Midway Garden Entrance 1914 Title: Midway Garden Entrance.  Description: Chicago Architectural Photographing Company, photographer Clarence Fuermann (1883-1983), Chicago, (Note: "Domino's Collection" page 152;  "In The Nature of Materials", page xvi, no. 194).  Purchased from "The Architectural Forum".  Note on back indicates it was used by Arthur Drexler - MOMA.  This image published in “Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings” 1960, Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn, page 120.  “Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens” 1998, Paul Kruty, page g.  "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Domino’s Collection" David A. Hanks, page 89.  Size: 8 x 10 S#: 1407.02.0706
	Date: 1914 Title: Midway Gardens 1914. Description: Photographed by Henry Fuermann & Sons in 1914. Cottage Grove Avenue viewed from the Northeast. The Winter Garden to the left side of this image, the Tavern is on the right. Both towers are prominent above the Winter Garden. Patterned concrete blocks, Two Queen of the Gardens and three Sprite statues are visible. Caption on face: "The Chicago Architectural Photographing Co. Midway Gardens, Cottage Grove Avenue at 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1914. Demolished." Stamped on verso: "Field Enterprises, Inc. Oct 1968." published in “Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings” 1960, Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn, page 120.  “Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens” 1998, Paul Kruty, page g. "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage, Domino’s Collection" David A. Hanks, page 89. Size: Original 8 x 10 B&W photograph. S#: 0124.12.0911
	Date: 1914 Title: Exotic Dancers, Midway Gardens 1914.  Description: Photographed by Collins (emboss on verso of board).  Possibly a publicity photograph or souvenir a that could be purchased as a keepsake, 4.75 x 3.6, mounted to decorative board 6.76 x 5.8.  Size: Photograph 4.75 x 3.6. S#: 0124.03.0407   (Left: Inset bottom right: Emboss from back of board)
	(Close-up of window poster) Date: 1918 Title: “Independence Day Dance. The Midway Garden." Description: "Music By Kelton’s Music Makers. Wed., July 3 (1918)."  In July of 1916 the name was changed to “Edelweiss Gardens” but in this poster it is still called “Midway Garden”.  It was referred to by “Midway Garden” (singular). Size: 2.75 x 4.5. S#: 0139.03.0407

SCULPTURE REPRODUCTIONS
	Date: 1998 Title: Midway Gardens "Sprite" Garden Sculpture Description: A reproduction of the original sculpture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and executed by Alfonso Iannelli.  (Produced by Nichols Brothers Stoneworks, Woodinville, Washington) Size: 42" Tall with Base ST#: 1998.00.1098
	Date: 2004 Title: Midway Garden "Sprite" with Baton.  Description: Frank Lloyd Wright Licensed vase. A reproduction of the original sculpture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and executed by Alfonso Iannelli.  (Produced by Nichols Brothers Stoneworks, Woodinville, Washington) Size: 42" tall with base ST#: 2004.13.0704

VASES
	Date: 1990 Title: Sprite Bud Vase.  Description: Midway Garden Sprite engraved on each side with a different angle. Silver Plated Pewter.  The Museum Company #400-54920.  Size: 1.5 x 7.4 ST#: 1990.51.0706

BILTMORE SPRITES
	Date: 1987 Title: Biltmore Sprite.  Description: “The Biltmore Sprites, donated by Taliesin Associated Architects to the Arizona Biltmore were recently unveiled.  These architectural statues of concrete were originally designed in 1914 by Frank Lloyd Wright to decorate the now destroyed Midway Gardens of Chicago.”  Photographed October 21, 1987 at the Arizona Biltmore Dedication Ceremony. Size: Original 5 x 7 B&W photograph. ST#: 1987.44.0507
	Date: 1987 Title: Dedication Ceremony.  Description: “John Rattenbury of Taliesin Associated Architects explains the history of the Sprites of Midway Gardens at the unveiling at the Arizona Biltmore.  The Sprites were recently restored and donated to the hotel by Taliesin.  Renamed the “Biltmore Sprites,” these architectural statues were originally designed in 1914 by Frank Lloyd Wright to decorate the now destroyed Midway Gardens of Chicago.”  Photographed October 21, 1987 at the Arizona Biltmore Dedication Ceremony. Size: Original 7 x 5 B&W photograph. ST#: 1987.45.0507
	Date: 1987 Title: PR: The Biltmore Sprite Fact Sheet Author: Arizona Biltmore Description: Fact sheet concerning Sprite, Dimensions, Material, Donations, Restoration, Design and Original Sculpture. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pg 1 ST#: 1987.47.0507
	Date: 1987 Title: PR:  Arizona Biltmore PR - 10/87 (Published by DBG&H, Phoenix) Author: Spitza, Anne M. Description: “The History of the Sprites of Midway Gardens.”   Includes information on the history and destruction of the Midway Gardens and the Sprites.  “It seemed the Sprites were lost forever.  Then sometime after World War II, word reached Taliesin... that a few of the Sprites had been saved and were lying in pieces in a farmer’s field in Lake Delton, Wisconsin.” Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 4 ST#: 1987.48.0507
	Date: 1987 Title: PR:  Arizona Biltmore PR - 10/87  (Published by DBG&H, Phoenix) Author: Spitza, Anne M. Description: “Creation of the Sprites Old & New.” Includes information on the creation of the original Sprites and the restoration.  “The Biltmore Sprites... are authentic, accurate reproductions of the damaged originals.” Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 3 ST#: 1987.49.0507
	Date: 1987 Title: PR:  Arizona Biltmore PR - 10/87  (Published by DBG&H, Phoenix) Author: Spitza, Anne M. Description: “Press Conference. ...the Sprites of Midway Gardens have been resurrected from their demise.  Now called the Biltmore sprites, they will be donated to the Arizona Biltmore by Taliesin on Wednesday, October 21 at 2:00 p.m., in front of the hotel.”  Two Copies. Size: 8.5 x 11 Pages: Pp 2 ST#: 1987.50.0507, 1987.51.0507

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