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For #SquirrelAppreciationDay#Squirrel#animals#mosaics#Pennsylvania#ArtsAndCraftsMovement#AnimalsInArt

photo of one of the four versions of the grey squirrel floor tile mosaic on the PA Capitol floor, all depicting squirrel eating a nut on a tree branch: this one numbered “12” and with a decorative border
photo of one of the four versions of the grey squirrel floor tile mosaic on the PA Capitol floor, all depicting squirrel eating a nut on a tree branch: this one numbered “28”
photo of one of the four versions of the grey squirrel floor tile mosaic on the PA Capitol floor, all depicting squirrel eating a nut on a tree branch: this one numbered “35” and with the squirrel red instead of grey
photo of one of the four versions of the grey squirrel floor tile mosaic on the PA Capitol floor, all depicting squirrel eating a nut on a tree branch: this one numbered “140”
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Sunday Sunfish! 317. “SUNFISH” from the ongoing search for all the #animals#mosaics#Pennsylvania#ArtsAndCraftsMovement#AnimalsInArt

photo of the sunfish floor tile mosaic, labeled “SUN FISH” and numbered “317”
photo of the tile’s entry in the 1908 guide book: “The Sunfish. 317. Where the meadow brook deepens under hazel bushes, or plunges into the the milldam's pool, or where sunbeams piercing the warped boards of the old broad bridge, illumine the scented water, barefooted children, with worm boxes poles strings pin hooks and puppy, peeping downward, behold the sunfish, akin to humanity in its eyes, fanning itself with winglike fins, a translucent golden shadow in an enchanted water world.” (Guide Book to the Tiles Pavement in the Capitol of Pennsylvania by Henry C Mercer, 1908, p. 85)
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Ceramic rhinoceros figurine #art#ceramics#rhino#animalsinart

Photo of a ceramic figurine of a rhino
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