Karl Bitter maquette for a pediment for the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, 1893.

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Karl Bitter maquette for a pediment for the Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, 1893.

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The collection comprises one plaster maquette for a terra cotta relief panel in an exterior pediment of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broad Steet Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bitter was commissioned by Frank Furness of Furness, Evans & Co. for the project, which included an elaborate clock and several allegorical panels. The Broad Street Station was demolished in 1952.

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University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Furness, Evans & Co.

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Furness, Evans & Co. was the architectural firm of Walter Rogers Furness, son of Horace Howard Furness. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1894. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883302 Frank Furness practiced architecture in Philadelphia under the firm names Fraser, Furness & Hewitt (1867-1871), Furness & Hewitt (1871-1875). Frank Furness (1876-1880), Furness & Evans (1881-1885) and Furness, Evans & Co. fr...

Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis, 1867-1915

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Born in a suburb of Vienna, Austria, Karl Bitter was trained as a sculptor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, from 1885 to 1888. After active service in the Army, Bitter immigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in November of 1889. Within weeks of his arrival, Bitter was engaged by the American architect, Richard Morris Hunt (1825-1895). He worked on projects for the Astors and Vandberbilts in New York City and at the Biltmore Estate, for William H. Vanderbilt, Ash...

Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...