Vulcan Museum in Birmingham, Alabama
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Lee and Karen Duquette entered the Vulcan Museum at the top of Red Mountain to meet Vulcan and learn the fascinating history that makes him so significant to Birmingham!

entrance to the Vulcan Museum
sign in the Vulcan Museum entrance sign in the Vulcan Museum entrance
mechanical stuff
sign: Recipe for a city display int he museum about food
Company store sign the old commissary
old radio antique cash register

Below: A Grid map on the floor and on the wall of the museum
Grid map on the floor grid map on the wall
sign: A City is Born displlay about building Birmingham
sign of ambition and Architecture
sign about the Vulcan's creation small model of the Vulcan statue
restoring vulcan sign about the sculptor, Moretti

Below: A piece was missing from the puzzle on the wall, but Lee Duquette played with the puzzle anyway. He was NOT the person who lost the puzzle piece.
Vulcan puzzle Lee Duquette playing with the Vulcan puzzle
sign: a statue cast from iron Vulcan's Moretti information
Lee Duquette beside a model of Vulcan's foot
sign

Below: Signs with interesting and / or important information.
sign sign
sign sign
sign sign
Meet Me in Saing Louis Vulcan Timeline poster

The statue was shipped to St. Louis as Birmingham's entry into the 1904 World's Fair. Vulcan dramatically demonstrated the mineral riches and manufacturing capabilities of the Birmingham area while on display in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition's "Palace of Mines and Metallurgy". It was awarded a "Grand Prize".

When the 1904 World's Fair ended, the Vulcan statue was dismantled and returned to its home city of Birmingham, only to be left in pieces alongside the railroad tracks due to unpaid freight bills.
sign about the Saint Louis World's Fair
sign about the Saint Louis World's Fair sign about the Saint Louis World's Fair
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history sign history sign
history sign history sign
history sign
look below

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