The Oliver Evans Society for Industrial Archeology invites you to join us for
AN EXHIBITION TOUR OF
And Let Victory Tell the Rest: 250 Years of Shipbuilding in Greater Philadelphia

Thursday, November 20 at 11:00 AM
At The American Swedish Historical Museum
1900 Pattison Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19145
$20 per person.
Registration and advance payment are required.
Space is limited, so please sign up at your earliest convenience.
Register with your name and phone number at oliverevanssia@outlook.com
AND mail a check payable to Oliver Evans SIA for $20 per person to:
Helen Schenck, OESIA Treasurer
169 West Federal St.
Burlington, NJ 08016

Reservations will be open for OESIA members exclusively through Monday, November 10.  Then it will be open to interested non-members.  So please make your reservations as soon as you can.

This exhibit is part of the 250th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the US Navy. As one of the nation’s premier shipbuilding and repair regions in the world, the Greater Philadelphia area has built many ships for the United States Navy. From the early days of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution to the nuclear-powered warships of the Cold War, these facilities were a critical component of the Navy’s operations in defending America and its allies abroad. This exhibit showcases some of these ships, the people that helped build them, and their role in defending America.

ASHM Curator Brett Peters will give us a tour of And Let Victory Tell the Rest, a special spotlight tour of the John Ericsson Room (Swedish-American inventor and engineer,  Ericsson is best known for designing the USS Monitor, the ironclad vessel that fought the Confederate Virginia (Merrimac) during the Civil War.) and will give a brief overview of the Museum’s other galleries.

Once you enter you may stay until the Museum closes at 4:00 p.m. to take a longer, closer look at objects on display. Since restaurants are not nearby, we have reserved a room in the Museum with tables and chairs so you can bring your lunch and take a break between the tour and exploring on your own.

This will be a fun and informative day that we are sure you will enjoy.

For more on the Museum visit: https://www.americanswedish.org/

DIRECTIONS & PARKING:
Putting 1900 Pattison Ave in a map app will get you to the back of the Museum. Instead use Pattison Avenue and 20th Street.  The Museum entrance is off of FDR Park.  The building was opened in 1926 as part of the Sesquicentennial, which was laid out all through today’s FDR Park.
There is plenty of parking in FDR Park along the fence surrounding the Museum.  To get to the parking area and the Museum entrance, go to the traffic light at the intersection of Pattison Avenue and 20th Street.  Enter the park there.  Follow the drive to the first left, you can see the museum off to the left.  Follow that drive to the parking area.  Enter through the gate in the fence in front of the Museum.

Public transit to reach the American Swedish Historical Museum in FDR Park in South Philadelphia for our November 20th Tour

Broad Street Subway to the last stop, NRG Station at Broad St. & Pattison Ave., right at the north-east corner of FDR Park. Take a 5-block walk through the Park to the break in the fence around the Museum. The Subway makes direct connections with SEPTA suburban commuter trains as well as the Market St. Subway.

SEPTA Bus #4 on Broad St. to it’s last stop at Broad St. & Pattison Ave. Take a 5-block walk through FDR Park to the break in the fence around the Museum.

SEPTA Bus #17 runs from Market St. in Center City down 19th St. to Pattison Ave. and then passes the Museum on Pattison Ave.

Other Transportation information and a map can be found on the Museum website.

https://www.americanswedish.org/visit/directions