- Titles Birmingham "Industrial City Beautiful" Souvenir Plate (Descriptive)
- Artist After, Giuseppe Moretti, American, born Italy, 1857 - 1935 / Retailed by, Bromberg & Company, Inc., United States, Birmingham, Alabama, est. 1836 / Vernon Kilns, United States, Vernon, California, 1931 - 1987
- Medium transfer-printed earthenware
- Dimensions 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. Diam. (1.9 x 26.7 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Graham C. Boettcher in honor of Frank and Lella Bromberg, AFI.1.2008
- Work Type plate
- Classification Containers
- Inscription Transfer-printed on reverse: BIRMINGHAM / "The Industrial City Beautiful" / as viewed from the top of Red Mountain, where / Vulcan, the Mighty Smith, stands… the only place/ in the world where coal, iron ore, and dolomite, the three / ingredients for making iron and steel, are found (in proximity) / in large commercial quantities. Vulcan, pictured on the face of the / plate, is the largest iron statue in the world, stretching 55 feet in his san-/ daled-feet and tipping the scales at 100 tons. on a pedestal 127 feet high. / [view of Birmingham from Red Mountain] / THIS PLATE HAS BEEN DESIGNED EXCLUSIVELY / FOR / BROMBERG & COMPANY / BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA / BY / VERNON KILNS / U.S.A.
- Provenance Margaret Surber, Saginaw, Texas; purchased from above by Dr. Graham C. Boettcher (Jan. 29, 2008); donated by Dr. Graham C. Boettcher to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art (March 26, 2008).
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