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this weirdo squirrel was sitting on a post as i was leaving work on friday. he was either ill, or just too hot to move, because he let me get quite close while he showed off his moves.
Locust Street goes through the central campus of University of Pennsylvania, passing by the Wharton School of Business. Fall orange colors of the leaves complement the red brick buildings and walkway. Repeating S-pattern draws the eye forward into the photo. Taken with Sony A7Rii and FE 16-35mm f2.8 G Master lens. F4.5, 1/100 sec, 24mm, ISO 100.
The Furness Library
officially known as: The Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library
architect: Frank Furness; Furness, Evans, & Co. 1891
architectural styles: Gothic architecture, Venetian Gothic architecture
University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
220 S 34th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Ware College House
Ware is the center portion of the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Quadrangle and includes: Morgan, Wilson, E.F. Smith, Coxe, Rodney, Bodine, Morris, Speakman, Butcher, Chesnut and McClelland Halls, and the quadruple-turreted Memorial Tower.
University City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
E. Craig Sweeten Alumni House
originally: the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house
currently: Penn Alumni Relations
architect: Bissell & Sinkler/Dagit, Saylor, 1914
architectural style: Gothic
University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
3533 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
commonly known as: The Penn Museum
University Museum Medallions
sculptor: John Ross, 1899
architect: Wilson Eyre, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
South &33rd Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Towne Building
also known as: Towne School, Towne School of Engineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Science
originally named for John Henry Towne, the university trustee and donor who established the Towne Scientific School
architect: Cope & Stewardson, 1906
architectural style: English classicism, 17th century
University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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All Wars Memorial to Penn Alumni
also known as: War Memorial Flagpole
sculptor: Charles Rudy, 1951
INSCRIPTION:
The University of Pennsylvania
1740 To her sons who died in the service of their country 1950
A brood of sturdy men who stood for freedom and for truth. -Sir Walter Mitchell, class of 1848.
This memorial presented by Walter H. Annenberg, class of 1931.
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University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
commonly known as: The Penn Museum
University Museum Medallions
sculptor: John Ross, 1899
architect: Wilson Eyre, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania - University City neighborhood
South &33rd Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Penn Police Department
The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD), with 117 members, is the largest private police department in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and maintains the second largest number of full-time sworn police officers amongst all private Universities across the United States, and the third largest number of sworn police officers for all Universities nationwide, both public and private.
Penn Police Department
The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD), with 117 members, is the largest private police department in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and maintains the second largest number of full-time sworn police officers amongst all private Universities across the United States, and the third largest number of sworn police officers for all Universities nationwide, both public and private.
Weekly Theme: In Full Bloom (Flowers)
Week 24
Taken June 18, 2016
Title: Yellow (alternate)
Notes: This week we had a great place to find subjects. We are lucky enough to be near one of the oldest arboretums in the US, the Morris Arboretum (1887). It has some of the most beautiful trees, groves and orchards, but is also home to a truly gorgeous rose garden. My alternate shot and favorite was of these yellow rose blossoms. Wet with dew and water droplets, this bunch was fragrant and lush with color.
www.business-services.upenn.edu/arboretum/gardens_feature...
Símbolo de Philadelphia, ciudad del amor fraternal. Esta escultura está situada en el campus universitario de la Universidad de Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia is the symbol of Brotherly Love. This is located at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. While the university dates its founding to 1740, it was created by Benjamin Franklin and leading Philadelphia citizens in 1749. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universities by numerous organizations and scholars.
The University has four undergraduate schools as well as twelve graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing. Among its highly ranked graduate schools are its law school, whose first professor wrote the first draft of the United States Constitution, its medical school, the first in North America, and Wharton, the first collegiate business school. Penn's endowment is US$20.7 billion, putting it amongst the wealthiest academic institutions in the world, and its 2019 research budget was $1.02 billion.
Penn was one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service. The campus, in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, is centered around College Hall, and notable landmarks are Houston Hall, the first modern "student union", and Franklin Field, the first double-decker college football stadium. Penn also is the home of the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is located 15 miles northwest of the campus, in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. The university's athletics program, the Quakers, fields varsity teams in 33 sports as a member of the NCAA Division I Ivy League conference.
Throughout its existence, Penn alumni, trustees, and/or faculty have included 8 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 7 signers of the U.S. Constitution, 2 Presidents of the United States, 3 Supreme Court justices, 32 U.S. senators, 163 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 12 U.S. Cabinet Secretaries, 46 governors, and 9 foreign heads of state. Alumni and or faculty include 36 Nobel laureates and 33 Rhodes Scholars. Penn alumni (a) have won 28 Tony Awards, 16 Grammy Awards, 11 Emmy Awards, and 4 Academy Awards and (b) include one of only 17 people who have earned all 4 awards (an EGOT). In addition, Penn has the greatest number of alumni on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans out of all colleges and has the greatest number of undergraduate billionaire alumni of all colleges, with 64 living billionaires, 28 of whom are alumni of Penn's undergraduate schools. Penn alumni have won 81 Olympic medals (26 of them gold). Two Penn alumni have been NASA astronauts and 5 have been awarded the United States Armed Forces' highest award for gallantry, the Medal of Honor.
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. Alhough there is no official definition of its boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest, and the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line to the south. An alternate definition includes all city land west of the Schuylkill; this would also include Southwest Philadelphia and its neighborhoods. The eastern side of West Philadelphia is also known as University City.
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City, and the 68th-largest city in the world. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and world's 68th-largest metropolitan region, with 6.245 million residents as of 2020. The city's population as of the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's independence. Philadelphia hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 following the Boston Tea Party, preserved the Liberty Bell, and hosted the Second Continental Congress during which the founders signed the Declaration of Independence, which historian Joseph Ellis has described as "the most potent and consequential words in American history". Once the Revolutionary War commenced, both the Battle of Germantown and the Siege of Fort Mifflin were fought within Philadelphia's city limits. The U.S. Constitution was later ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until 1790, when it was surpassed by New York City, and served as the nation's first capital from May 10, 1775, until December 12, 1776, and on four subsequent occasions during and following the American Revolution, including from 1790 to 1800 while the new national capital of Washington, D.C. was under construction.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Philadelphia emerged as a major national industrial center and railroad hub. The city’s blossoming industrial sector attracted European immigrants, predominantly from Germany and Ireland, the two largest reported ancestry groups in the city as of 2015. In the 20th century, immigrant waves from Italy and elsewhere in Southern Europe arrived. Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, Philadelphia became a leading destination for African Americans in the Great Migration. In the 20th century, Puerto Rican Americans moved to the city in large numbers. Between 1890 and 1950, Philadelphia's population doubled to 2.07 million. Philadelphia has since attracted immigrants from East and South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
With 18 four-year universities and colleges, Philadelphia is one of the nation's leading centers for higher education and academic research. As of 2021, the Philadelphia metropolitan area was the nation's ninth-largest metropolitan economy with a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of US$479 billion. Philadelphia is the largest center of economic activity in Pennsylvania and the broader multi-state Delaware Valley region; the city is home to five Fortune 500 corporate headquarters as of 2022. The Philadelphia skyline, which includes several globally renowned commercial skyscrapers, is expanding, primarily with new residential high-rise condominiums. The city and the Delaware Valley are a biotechnology and venture capital hub; and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, owned by NASDAQ, is the nation's oldest stock exchange and a global leader in options trading. 30th Street Station, the city's primary rail station, is the third-busiest Amtrak hub in the nation, and the city's multimodal transport and logistics infrastructure, including Philadelphia International Airport, the PhilaPort seaport, freight rail infrastructure, roadway traffic capacity, and warehouse storage space, are all expanding.
Philadelphia is a national cultural hub, hosting more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is 2,052 acres (830 ha), representing one of the nation's largest contiguous urban parks and the 45th largest urban park in the world. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial and Revolution-era history; in 2016, it attracted 42 million domestic tourists who spent $6.8 billion, representing $11 billion in total economic impact to the city and surrounding Pennsylvania counties.
With five professional sports teams and a hugely loyal fan base, the city is often ranked as the nation's best city for professional sports fans. The city has a culturally and philanthropically active LGBTQ+ community. Philadelphia also has played an immensely influential historic and ongoing role in the development and evolution of American music, especially R&B, soul, and rock.
Philadelphia is a city of many firsts, including the nation's first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), university (by some accounts) (1779), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks, including Independence Hall. From the city's 17th century founding through the present, Philadelphia has been the birthplace or home to an extensive number of prominent and influential Americans. In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia one of the world's greatest 100 places." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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