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Air
Walker Hancock, 1979 (installed 2015)
* small horizontal flying person, globe, clouds
* Originally at the Civic Center. In storage from 1999-2014.
* River side of Schuylkill Banks at Cherry.
* 39.957300,-75.178650 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Walker Hancock page

Wall Reliefs
G. Frye, 1982
* abstract reliefs
* One relief is signed G. Frye '82, but I can't find a listing for a G. Frye or this piece.
* Walls. West side of 22nd and East side of Croskey, North of Arch.
* 39.956300,-75.176300 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists

Benjamin Franklin and His Kite
Agnes Yarnall, 1965 (installed 1994)
* Statue of Benjamin Franklin
* small standing person, kite
* Also listed as "Benjamin Franklin with Kite"
* inscription: June 12th, 1752 was the day on which Benjamin Franklin extracted lightning from the sky with his kite and key.
* Coxe Park. South Side of Cherry, just East of 22nd.
* 39.956800,-75.175550 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+ulheritagecenter.pastperfectonline.com's Agnes Yarnall page
+wikipedia.org's Benjamin Franklin page

JFK Boulevard Bridge Sidewalk
JMT (Johnson, Mirmiran and Thompson), 2009
* big abstract sidewalk design
* Sidewalk. JFK Boulevard Bridge. JFK Boulevard, East of 29th.
* 39.955450,-75.180700 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* See also:
+jmt.com page for this project
+jmt.com
+wikipedia.org's John F. Kennedy Boulevard Bridge page

Clock
2009
* clock
* East side of 30th Street Station. West side of 29th at JFK.
* 39.955600,-75.180950 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists, Mass Transit
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page

Science Leadership Academy Mosaics
2006 (school founded)
* small abstract kneeling people
* SLA has moved to Broad and Green and has been replaced by Greene Towne Montessori.
* North wall. Greene Towne Montessori School. South side of Arch, East of 22nd.
* 39.955950,-75.175875 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists, Mosaic
* See also:
+gtms.org

Pennsylvania Railroad Memorial Plaques
* Memorials to William Wallace Atterbury, George Gibbs and John Edgar Thomson
* small heads, trains
* inscription:
1866-1935
William Wallace Atterbury
Tenth President of The Pennsylvania Railroad
Director General of Transportation of American Expeditionary Forces - World War I.
Friend of Labor - Pioneer in collective bargaining
Servant of the American people in war and peace
With courage and foresight he introduced electrification in to the railroad's system
1861 - 1940
George Gibbs
Consulting Engineer
Whose vision and tenacity of purpose led to the development of the
Pennsylvania Railroad's articulated electric locomotive class GG1
placed in operation 1934
and contributed so much to the advancement of the art of electric railroad transportation
1808 - 1874
J. Edgar Thomson
Father of the Pennsylvania Railroad
First Chief Engineer - Third President
He planned the railroad's present system
He left his fortune in trust for the education and maintenance of female orphans of railway employees whose fathers may have been killed in the discharge of their duties
* North Waiting Room. 30th Street Station. Northeast corner, 30th and Market.
* 39.956205,-75.181755 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists, Mass Transit
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's William Wallace Atterbury page
+wikipedia.org's John Edgar Thomson page
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page

Tools of the Trade
Virginia Maksymowicz, 2022 (installed)
* tools, map
* inscription:
Tools of the trade is meant to make visible the often invisible role that railroad workers play in building and maintaining Amtrak's infrastructure.
Artist Virginia Maksymowicz commuted on the Amktrak Keystone Service for over 25 years, between her home in Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she taught as a professor of sculpture at Franklin and Marshall College. Maksymowicz credits her time on the train for producing some of her best thinking, including designing, researching, and planning many of her artworks.
At the time Tools of the Trade was created, the artist was working on a series of sculptures involving plaster casts of tools and bones, matephorically relating them to various structures. It occurred to her that Amtrak's national route system is another kind of structure, one that connects north and south, east and west, much like a bodily skeleton connects heat to toe and hand to hand.
Maksymowicz wanted to represent this structure through casts of the type of tools that Amtrak workers might use on the job. She collected vintage tools, railroad spikes and clips; she made silicon molds from them and cast them into lightweight plastic. Casts of spikes and bolts suggest mountains, and S-curved wrenches, calipers and railroad clips signify water.
* North Waiting Room. 30th Street Station. Northeast corner, 30th and Market.
* 39.956030,-75.181675 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* See also:
+whyy.org article about this piece
+maks-arts.com
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page

Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial
Walker Hancock, 1950 (installed 1952)
* big vertical people (one winged)
* prominently displayed in the movie Witness
* inscription:
front:
In memory of the men and women of the Pennsylvania Railroad who laid down their lives for our country 1941-1945.
back:
That all travelers here may remember those of the Pennsylvania Railroad who did not return from the Second World War.
* East end of the main lobby. 30th Street Station. Northeast corner, 30th and Market.
* 39.955655,-75.181400 [map] [nearby]
* On the Avenue of Technology tour
* Exhibits: Religious, War, Mass Transit
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Walker Hancock page
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page

Corinthian Column
Martin Architectural, 1967
* Corinthian column
* West side of 22nd, South of Summer.
* 39.958850,-75.175750 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* Exhibits: New
* See also:
+architect's page for the building
+martinaia.com

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: Moved, Mass Transit
* See also:
+phillyvoice.com article about this piece
+Wanda Kaluza's video of this piece at youtube.com
+Jazz Guy's picture of this piece at flickr.com
+wikipedia.org's Karl Bitter page
+wikipedia.org's 30th Street Station page

Boy Scouts of America Building
Charles Zeller Klauder (Architect), 1929
* logos, insignia, and mottoes, lion's head, shields, stars, birds, bison, tools, tent, anchor, torch, flowers
* inscription:
Youth Prepared Safeguards the Nation
Founded MCMX
This house dedicated to the training
of boys for youthful citizenship. Was
built by the Boy Scouts and their friends.
Erected MXMXXIX
On my honor I will do my best
to do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the scout law.
* Whole building.. Southeast corner, 22nd and Winter. One block South of the Parkway.
* 39.958850,-75.175300 [map] [nearby]
* On the JFK North tour
* See also:
+philadelphiabuildings.org's page for the building
+www.philadelphiabuildings.org's Charles Zeller Klauder page