Details
Contributor Kirn, Herman, sculptor.
Title Catholic Total Abstinence Union Fountain postcards. [graphic].
Date ca. 1905
Physical Description 3 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts statues of four prominent Catholic men standing on large stone fountains around the central figure of Moses, including John Barry, Charles Carroll, John Carroll and Theobald Matthew. Also includes carved portraits of Comte de Grasse, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette, George Gordon Meade, Orono and Casimir Pulaski. Designed in the shape of a maltese cross by Herman Kirn in 1876.
Notes Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white.
Accession numbers: P.9048.124, P.9048.142 and P.9076.5.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Concourse Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- corner of States Street.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Kirn, Herman, sculptor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Monuments and statues - [various]
Accession number various
P.9076.5