Details
Creator Photo Illustrators (Firm)
Contributor Schweizer, J. Otto, 1863-1955, sculptor.
Title [All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1934
Date [ca. 1934]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 26 x 21 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Description Detail of the back of the memorial, sculpted by J. Otto Schweizer, erected in 1934 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in memory of all African American military men who have served in war time. Depicts three of the four female allegorical bronze figures representing War, Liberty, Peace, and Plenty. They flank a commemorative plate embellished with Pennsylvania's seal and listing the monument's commissioners. Erected after much controversy on Lansdowne Avenue in West Fairmount Park, the memorial was moved in 1994 to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway opposite the Franklin Institute.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Schweizer was a European-trained Philadelphia sculptor who specialized in monumental works including several commissions for sites in Pennsylvania.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American sailors -- United States.
African American soldiers -- United States.
All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Allegories.
Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1930-1940.
Associated name Schweizer, J. Otto, 1863-1955, sculptor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators [P.8810.6]
Accession number P.8810.6