Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.
James Windrim & Son, architect.
Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929, sculptor.
Potter, Edward Clark, 1857-1923, sculptor.
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910, sculptor.
Title Smith Memorial postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1910
Physical Description 18 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains views of the Smith Memorial gateway designed by James Windrim & Son and built 1897-1912 at the Forty-first Street entrance to Fairmount Park. Built in honor of Civil War soldiers. Consists of two pedestals flanking Concourse Drive near Memorial Hall. Both sides have palladian arches and equestrian bronze statues on columns. Various sculptors produced different statues for the memorial. Daniel Chester French created the George Meade statue; Charles Grafly created the John Reynolds statue; Edward C. Potter created the McClellan statue and John Quincy Adams Ward created the Winfield Hancock statue.
Notes Contains 13 postcards printed in color and 5 printed in black and white.
Also known as the Richard Smith Memorial Gateway.
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 Lansdowne Drive.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.
Associated name Grafly, Charles, 1862-1929, sculptor.
Associated name Potter, Edward Clark, 1857-1923, sculptor.
Associated name Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910, sculptor.
Associated name James Windrim & Son, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Smith Memorial - 89]
Accession number Brightbill 89
089-a01-b