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Current nominations
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- Allegorical Figure of the Waterworks. Carved by William Rush (1825) for the Fairmount Water Works, portrayed in Thomas Eakins's paintings of William Rush and His Model, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1916 American premiere of Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the Academy of Music (Philadelphia).
- Mother Jones: In 1903 Jones organized children, who were working in mills and mines at the time, to participate in the "Children's Crusade", a march from Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Oyster Bay, New York, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt, with banners demanding "We want to go to School and not the mines!" Though the President refused to meet with the marchers, the incident brought the issue of child labor to the forefront of the public agenda.
- Detail of Western Civilization (1933) by C. Paul Jennewein (pediment sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
- William Penn statue by Alexander Milne Calder atop Philadelphia City Hall.
- Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1830-35) by Edward Hicks, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.