Pittsburgh Valley, Manor Township, Student Art Poster
Description
Poster displaying artwork of five eight-grade students who attended the Pittsburg Valley one-room school in Manor Township in 1933. Black and orange colored construction paper airplanes "Spirit of St. Louis" are by Ralph Richter and James Frey. There are three other square paper designs of black, orange, green and blue.
On the back, artwork has been removed, but the following Grade 8 students' names are written: Lottie Ressler, Cleo Sourbeer and Ralph Richter.
Provenance
Note clipped to poster display: "Randy, This is one of the 9 or 10 art work done in one rm school manor twp (Little Pittsburgh 1933) Are you interested? I must find good home for them as I promised the teacher I would. Clyde."
Julius Augustus Beck was born in Lititz, Lancaster County, and was educated at the Lititz Academy. He studied sculpture with Hiram Powers in Florence, Italy, and with Thomas Crawford in Rome. He was also a student in the English Life Academy at Rome. In 1857, Beck sculpted the lion's head for the Lititz Springs Park. The Pennsylvania Historical Society owns more than fifty portraits of prominent Pennsylvanians painted by J. Augustus Beck.
