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Plaster expands while hardening then contracts slightly just before hardening completely. This makes plaster excellent for use in molds, and it is often used as an artistic material for casting. Plaster is also commonly spread over an armature (form), made of wire mesh, cloth, or other materials; a process for adding raised details.
The Magic City. New York: Arno Press, 1974. ISBN 0-405-06364-4; Burg, David F. Chicago's White City of 1893. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976. ISBN 0-8131-0140-9; Corn, Wanda M. Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda
Philadelphia City Hall built; 1902 Automat eatery in business. Corn Exchange National Bank building constructed. [61] 1903 – Textile strike. [48] 1905 – City Club of Philadelphia chartered. [62] 1907 Broad Street Subway begins operation. March 7: Market Street Subway begins operation. 1908 - Celebration of the 225th anniversary of the ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
[2] [3] Ceracchi left for Europe in 1792, and then returned to Philadelphia in 1794. [4] He then had Washington sit for him again in 1795 to finish the marble bust he sculpted while in Italy, copied from the earlier plaster portrait bust he sculpted from life late 1791, early 1792.
One South Broad is a 28-story 472 feet (144 m) art deco office tower on south Broad Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] Designed by architect John Torrey Windrim , [ 6 ] the skyscraper contains 465,000 square feet (43,000 m 2 ) of space. [ 14 ]
Frederick Graff (27 August 1775 – 13 April 1847) was an American hydraulic engineer who designed and built the Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and unofficially invented the fire hydrant.