Railroad Employment & Railroad Retirement reliefs (ca. 1941) at the Health & Human Services. (formerly H.E.W.) building in Washington, D.C. by Robert Kittredge, Louis A Simon located in James M. Goode's Southwest D.C.

The engineer is at the throttle & the fireman is stoking the furnace inside the cab of a railroad engine.

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0000001/00274_0000003330 (added ca. 2006)

A retired railroader pauses from his work in the garden to wave at a passing steam locomotive.

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0000001/00274_0000003340 (added ca. 2006)

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See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture'(hardcover p 571 Item #13.07; Southwest D.C.);
'Outdoor Sculpture'(paperback p253 Item #G-6)
Medium: Granite
Artist: Robert Kittredge, Louis A Simon(click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: History, American
Location: 330 C St. SW - Independence Ave between 3rd & 4th Sts SW (Mary E Switzer Building) Washington, D.C.
See Southwest D.C.in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Federal Center Southwest(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 66400039also control # DC000030 (dcMem ID #274 )

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HHS (formerly HEW) website
Modernization of the Switzer building
Wikipedia article on Switzer
New Deal Art website

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Railroad Employment & Railroad Retirement reliefs (ca. 1941) at the Health & Human Services. (formerly H.E.W.) building in Washington, D.C.
by Robert Kittredge,