Bronze Statue of Matthias W. Baldwin - 1906

BRONZE: 

STATUE OF MATTHIAS W. BALDWIN

BY HERBERT ADAMS

This memorial to the founder of the great industry which bears his name, formerly erected in a grass plot at Broad and Spring Garden Streets, was presented to the City of Philadelphia, through this Association, by the firm of Burnham, Williams & Co., proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, on June 2, 1906.

Removed in 1921 and placed temporarily on the City Hall Plaza.

Source: Fairmount Park Art Association; an account of its origin and Activites from its Foundation in 1871... Fairmount Park Art Association, 1921.

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