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Year: 1942
Ivy Day Markers
1936 - 1948
* small
ivy leaves,
idea
* There are Ivy Day markers all over the Penn campus, but these are particularly sculptural.
* West wall.
Irvine Auditorium.
Northwest of 34th and Spruce.
* 39.950965,-75.193260 [map] [nearby]
* On the Penn Campus tour
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Irvine Auditorium page
George and Meta Conor-Wood Memorial
Ahron Ben-Shmuel,
1942
* Memorial to George Conor-Wood
and
Meta Conor-Wood
* seated person,
deer
* Martin Luther King Drive below Black Road, opposite side, sunken.
* 39.981375,-75.205825 [map] [nearby]
* On the West Park tour
* See also:
+michenermuseum.org's Ahron Ben-Shmuel page
Maja
Gerhard Marcks,
1942 (installed 2021)
* standing person
* Removed from in front of the Art Museum 1992, in storage until 2021
* Maja Park in front of Park Towne Place.
South side of the Parkway, West of 22nd.
* 39.961250,-75.176020 [map] [nearby]
* On the Parkway and Pennsylvania tour
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Gerhard Marcks page
+parktowneapthomes.com
Settling of the Seaboard
Wheeler Williams,
1942
* Quotes from William Penn
and
Alexander Whitaker
* group of people,
standing,
sitting,
trees,
turkey
* inscription:
front:
I have great love and regard towards
you and desire to win and gain your love
and friendship by a kind, just and peacable
life and the people I send are of the same
mind and shall in all things behave
themselves accordingly.
-William Penn to the Indians
If we consider the almost miraculous
beginning and continuance of this
plantation we must needs confess that God
hath opened this passage unto us and led
us by the hand unto this work.
-Aleaxander Whitaker
back:
We yield unfeigned thanks and and praise
for the return of seed-time and harvest
for the increase of the ground
and the gathering in of the fruits thereof
and for all other blessings
of Thy merciful providence
bestowed upon this nation and people
-The Book of Common Prayer
A Land is Settled
* South Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.
Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.972440,-75.190360 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Wheeler Williams page
+wikipedia.org's William Penn page
+wikipedia.org's Alexander Whitaker page
+ushistory.org's Samuel Memorial tour page
The Puritan
Harry Rosin,
1942
* standing person,
gun
* South Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.
Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.972375,-75.190360 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+michenermuseum.org's Harry Rosin page
+ushistory.org's Samuel Memorial tour page
The Quaker
Harry Rosin,
1942
* standing person,
Bible,
hat
* South Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial.
Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.972525,-75.190360 [map] [nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+michenermuseum.org's Harry Rosin page
+ushistory.org's Samuel Memorial tour page