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Clocks and Sundials
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Drexel Clock * clock * Courtyard. Drexel University. South side of Market between 31st and 32nd. * 39.954700,-75.186100 [map] * On the Avenue of Technology tour. * See also: +Drexel University |
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Sundial Alexander Stirling Calder, 1903 * people kneeling, sundials, zodiac signs, hat * inscription: Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your lord will come. * Center of the central promenade in the Horticulture Center. Horticulture Drive. East of Belmont.. * 39.983175,-75.212650 [map] * On the West Park tour. * Exhibits: New, Religious * See also: +wikipedia.org's Alexander Stirling Calder page |
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Gimbel Brothers Clock 1927 * clock * Wall. Northeast corner, 9th and Chestnut. * 39.949875,-75.155375 [map] * On the Jefferson Campus tour. * See also: +philadelphiabuildings.org entry for the building |
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Fidelity Bank Building 1928 * reclining people, heads, standing people, headgear, hammer, artists tools, quill and scroll, dragons, ship, weapons, lion, tree, donkey, sun, sundial * inscription: Libertas Americana, 4 Juil 1776 Non sine diis animosusinians 17 Oct. 1777 - 19 Oct. 1781 Fugio. 1787, Mind your business Value me as you please Masathusets * Whole building. East side of Broad between Sansom and Walnut. * 39.949675,-75.163925 [map] * On the Avenue of the Arts tour. * See also: +philadelphiabuildings.org's page for the building |
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Board of Education Building 1930 * groups of people, people standing, people sitting and kneeling, winged people, books, tablets, scrolls, writing implements, linked BE logo, eagles, scarf, staff, buildings, tools, urns, jugs, ship, hourglass, lamp, light fixtures, plants, sun, globes * There is artwork on the Winter and 21st street sides and in the courtyard on Winter. The School District no longer occupies the building. * Building. Southwest Corner, 21st and Winter. * 39.958900,-75.174150 [map] * On the Parkway tour. * Exhibits: New, Unidentified * See also: +philadelphiabuildings.org's page for the building |
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Suburban Station Clock 1930 * clock, sign * Best observed from the East side of 16th * 16th Street entrance. Suburban Station. West side of 16th, North of JFK. * 39.954150,-75.166750 [map] * On the City Hall tour. * See also: +artistic views of the clock at tracyelizabethsmith.com +wikipedia.org's Suburban Station page |
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Pan with Sundial Beatrice Fenton, 1938 * In memory of William Stansfield * small kneeling person (pan), pipes, plants, sundial * inscription: Such harmony is in immortal souls. In loving memory of William Stansfield, FRCO FACO MUS R-PA. Tribute from his loving wife. * East of the main entrance of the Penn Library. Woodland Walk, West of 34th. * 39.952385,-75.193500 [map] * On the Penn Campus tour. * Exhibits: Religious * See also: +askart.com's Beatrice Fenton page |
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Evelyn Taylor Price Sundial Beatrice Fenton, 1947 * Tribute to Evelyn Taylor Price * small children standing, plants, sundial * inscription: A tribute to Evelyn Taylor Price, President, Rittenhouse Square Flower Market Association, 1916-1939, Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association, 1934-1946. Erected by her friends. * Rittenhouse Square. Near the Southwest corner of 18th and Walnut. * 39.949735,-75.171420 [map] * On the Rittenhouse Square tour. * See also: +phillyhistory.org 1949 picture of this piece +askart.com's Beatrice Fenton page +wikipedia.org's Rittenhouse Square page |
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I.M. Pei Garden Jill Sablosky, 2003 * A tribute to I. M. Pei * bench, sundial, fountain * inscription: World-renowned Architect and Designer of Society Hill Towers In celebration of the Towers 40th Anniversary, 2003 * North side of Society Hill Towers. Near the top of the stairs off Dock Street, South of Walnut and West of 2nd. * 39.946000,-75.144850 [map] * On the Society Hill tour. * See also: +inliquid.com's Jill Sablosky page +wikipedia.org's I. M. Pei page +philadelphiabuildings.org's Society Hill Towers page |
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Clock 2009 * clock * East side of 30th Street Station. West side of 29th at JFK. * 39.955600,-75.180950 [map] * On the Avenue of Technology tour. * See also: +wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page |