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Photographer: Tim Carr
Taken: January 4, 2010
Caption: Vulcan, god of fire and metals.
Additional Description: Vulcan, god of fire and metals. To typify the colossal mineral resources of Alabama, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Sculptor - G. Moretti, of New York. Cast in Alabama iron by Birmingham Steel & Iron Co., J. R. McWane, Pres't., W. T. Adams, V. Pres't. Built by the Commercial Club, Birmingham, Ala., F. M. Jackson, Pres't., J. B. Gibson, Sec'y., J. A. Macknight, Special Ac't. Executive Committee: Rufus N. Rhodes, F.W. Dixon, T. G. Bush, Culpepper Exum, Geo. H. Clark. Height of Statue, 50 feet, Weight. 120000 lbs. Vulcan's Prophecy. Just as my stature towers above the sons of earth so shall the district, from whose breast the ore and coal were torn and fused to give me birth, exceed all others in "Times March." For O'er and O'er, nature hath flung her treasures with a generous hand, and Birmingham sits throned. Both hemispheres can draw on her. The mineral wealth of every land is there allied to rule the world in future years. J.H. Adams.
Submitted: January 8, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p92143
File Size: 4.857 Megabytes

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