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Artist: Karl Bitter
Spirit of Transportation
Karl Bitter,
1895
* big
group of people,
mostly standing,
some sitting,
horses,
sheep,
oxen,
wagon and carriage,
basket
of fruit,
model train,
model boat,
model airship
* inscription:
This panel, the conception and work of Karl Bitter, sculptor, was executed in 1895 and placed in the waiting room of Broad Street Station Philadelphia from which place it was removed to this site in January, 1933. The spirit of transportation is represented in triumphant procession of progress led by a little child carrying a model of an airship, a prophetic vision of a mode of transportation to come.
* North Waiting Room.
30th Street Station.
Northeast corner, 30th and Market.
* 39.956140,-75.182025 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* Exhibits: Mass Transit
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page
William Pepper
Karl Bitter,
1896
* Statue of William Pepper
* sitting and kneeling people,
chair,
plants,
staff
* Another copy can be found at the Main Library on the landing of the stairs to the second floor.
* inscription:
M.D. L.L.D.
Provost of the
University
of
Pennsylvania
1881-1894
There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
All things exist in the man
tinged with the manners of his soul.
* South side of College Hall.
North of Spruce, West of 34th.
* 39.951230,-75.193825 [map] [nearby]
* On the Penn Campus tour
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's William Pepper page
+wikipedia.org's College Hall page
