Spirit of Transportation, Karl Bitter, 1895

30th Street Station, Philadelphia. Taken in 2005 on the way to visit the fascinating (and rather unnerving) Mütter Museum, followed by an Eyehategod gig at First Unitarian Church next door. Good times.



A plaque below the sculpture has inscribed the following: This panel, the conception and work of Karl Bitter, sculptor, was executed in 1895 and placed in the waiting room of Broad Street Station Philadelphia from which place it was removed to this site in January, 1933. The spirit of transportation is represented in triumphant procession of progress led by a little child carrying a model of an airship, a prophetic vision of a mode of transportation to come.