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1939

Walt Whitman
Jo Davidson, 1939
* Statue of Walt Whitman
* standing person
* Southwest corner, Broad and Packer, on the approach to the onramp.
* 39.911460,-75.173325 [map]
* On the South Broad tour.
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Jo Davidson page
+wikipedia.org's Walt Whitman page

Welcoming to Freedom
Maurice Sterne, 1939
* Quotes from William Cullen Bryant and Abraham Lincoln
* two people, one standing, one sitting
* inscription:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right. As God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in.
- Abraham Lincoln
Here the free spirit of mankind at length throws its first fetters off and who shall place a limit to the giant's unchained strength, or curb his swiftness in the forward race.
- William Cullen Bryant
* Central Terrace Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial. Kelly Drive, past Boat House Row.
* 39.973885,-75.191000 [map]
* On the Kelly Drive tour.
* See also:
+askart.com's Maurice Sterne page
+wikipedia.org's William Cullen Bryant page
+wikipedia.org's Abraham Lincoln page
+ushistory.org's Samuel Memorial tour page