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Mother and Twins Monument For many the most fascinating 95 acres in the city is a hilly Victorian cemetery with thousands of elaborate tombs, gravestones and soaring monuments. Laurel Hill, which opened in 1836, is as much a sculpture garden as burial ground. Of all the monuments in this National Historic Landmark, one stands alone for sheer pathos and poignancy. The monument is a statue of a mother holding her infant twins. It was carved by her husband and the twins' father — a professional sculptor — and overlooks the spot on the Schuylkill River where the babies drowned. For years, cemetery guides believed the mother and her children died together in a boating accident. But cemetery records show the children were buried March 6, 1855. The mother was interred on July 27, 1857. The husband and father was Henry Dmoghowski-Saunders (or Sanders), a Polish sculptor whose busts of Thaddeus Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski are on display in the U.S. Capitol. There are a lot of unanswered questions about the deaths and not much is known of the Polish sculptor, except that after finishing the sad monument he returned to Europe and never came back to America. Time and the elements have done much to erase the details of the marble monument. There are inscriptions on three sides of the base in Polish and English. To the memory of Helena Schaaff. Wife of Henry Dmoghowski-Saunders. Born Neustadt on the Rhine May 24, 1823. Died Philadelphia July 8, 1857. Her children repose with her. Parts of the other English inscription are too worn to read. This is what can be made out: We Should Count Time in Heart Throbs. He Most Lives who Thinks Most. Feels the Nobelest. Acts the Best.
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Author | Thomas from Philadelphia Area, USA |
Camera location | 40° 00′ 04.87″ N, 75° 11′ 23.07″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 40.001352; -75.189743 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Thomas James Caldwell at https://flickr.com/photos/81643710@N00/10861935424 (archive). It was reviewed on 17 May 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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F-number | f/4 |
ISO speed rating | 800 |
Date and time of data generation | 09:23, 30 October 2013 |
Lens focal length | 60 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 21:50, 23 December 2017 |
Exposure Program | Aperture priority |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 09:23, 30 October 2013 |
APEX shutter speed | 8.321928 |
APEX aperture | 4 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
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Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Manual white balance |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 90 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Contrast | Hard |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Hard |
Subject distance range | Distant view |
Lens used | smc PENTAX-DA*60-250mm F4 ED [IF] SDM |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:50, 23 December 2017 |
Unique ID of original document | 95DA7979997030479D9868E2BC117136 |
IIM version | 4 |