| Summary: | "Souvenir of Birmingham. Vulcan, The `Iron Man.' Birmingham's Iron Man. Vulcan represented Birmingham, Alabama's great coal and iron district and was the most striking single feature at the St. Louis Exposition, in 1904. This statue was designed by Seignior G. Moretti, a noted Italian Sculptor. This gigantic figure of Vulcan (who in Mythology was not only the Fire God, but an artificer of metals and Patron Saint of all Handicraftsmen). His colossal figure is 50 feet high, and weighs 120,000 pounds, left arm and should weighs 5,000 pounds, legs, from ankle to knee, are 15 feet long, arms 26 feet long, his feet are 10 feet long. This colossal statue cost $20,000.00, and was paid for by subscriptions by the citizens of Birmingham. It has been estimated by expert advertising men that $100,000.00 in cash would not pay for the free space the statue of Vulcan has had in newspapers. Vulcan has been exploited in almost every publication in America, and the press of Canada, England, France, Germany and Italy have discussed him."
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