Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
1926-27
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 19 cm)
Mat: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 28 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Melita Taddiken, Class of 1928
Object
Number
75.035.003
Long a Cornell icon, the Sheldon Sundial was installed in 1910 at the southern entrance to Goldwin S(…)
Long a Cornell icon, the Sheldon Sundial was installed in 1910 at the southern entrance to Goldwin Smith Hall, surrounded by a semicircular seat of marble designed by Carrère and Hastings, the architects of Goldwin Smith Hall. The marble table at the center—with supports copied after those from the house of Gaius Cornelius Rufus at Pompeii—carried a bronze sundial, designed by Albert C. Crehore and cast by the Gorham Company. The sundial was given to the University by the late Charles Lacy Sheldon in memory of hissons, Franklin Lacy Sheldon (Class of 1892) and Charles Lacy Sheldon Jr. (Class of 1901). (“Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist,” curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 – June 7, 2015)
