La sécurité suit la sagesse/Safety follows wisdom, Québec, Canada
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N 46° 52.182 W 071° 09.906
19T E 334999 N 5192960
Trophée pour une année sans accident/Trophy for an accident-free year
Waymark Code: WM1304H
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 08/18/2020
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Trophée offert par la "Portland cement association" à Ciments St-Laurent pour une année sans accident en 1962.
Plusieurs de ces distinctions peuvent encore se trouver dans les villes où il y a eu des cimenteries.
Le symbolisme de la sculpture est malheureusement inconnu. Les deux personnages représentés sont anciens, probablement romains. Les autres éléments de la sculpture sont laissés à votre imagination.
Le premier de ces trophées (ou monument) a été délivré à la "San Antonio Portland Cement Company" à San Antonio, Texas, en mai 1924. Auparavant, une compétition a été tenue pour créer le design du trophée "Safety Follows Wisdom", et le gagnant était une petite équipe d'artistes de l'Institut d'Art de Chicago travaillant sous la supervision du sculpteur bien connu Albin Polasek. Ce même design est toujours aujourd'hui représenté ici dans ce monument.
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Trophy offered by the "Portland cement association" to Ciments St-Laurent for an accident-free year in 1962.
Many of these awards are still to be found in towns which had cement plants before the 1980s, when high costs caused abandonment of the program.
The symbolism in the sculpture, unfortunately, escapes the writer. The two figures are ancients, possibly Romans. The rest we'll leave to your imagination (or knowledge).
The first “Safety Follows Wisdom” Trophy (or Monument) was awarded to the San Antonio Portland Cement Company in San Antonio, Texas during the Associations Spring Meeting in May 1924. Prior to 1923, a competition was held to create the “Safety Follows Wisdom” design, and the winner was a small team of artists from the Art Institute in Chicago working under the guidance of well-known sculptor, Albin Polasek. That same safety design is still used in the Safety Awards presented today.
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Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1962
Where is this sculpture?:
rue des Pionnières-de-Beauport
Québec, Qc Canada
Sculptors Name: inconnu/unknown
Website for sculpture?: Not listed
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