Essay On Samuel Yellen

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Kyra Hokanson Professor Calabrese Comp II 22 April 2014 Samuel Yellen Back in 1885 Samuel Yellen was born in Galicia, Poland. When he was a little boy he was known as an American master blacksmith. When Yellen was only eleven years old he was apprenticed to an iron master that he completed in five short years. Samuel Yellen or otherwise known as the “Devil,” had tremendous working habits and a great sense of humor. He left Poland and decided to travel through Europe. When he was in England he left there to depart to the Americas in 1906. A year later he was enrolled at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. He began to take classes and within that same year he became a professor and remained there until 1919. Between the times he arrived at the America’s to the time that he became a professor he managed to open his own shop in 1909. Yellen used to design and create commissions for the Mellor, Meigs and Howe firm. Well six years after the opening of his shop they decided to design him a new studio at 5520 Arch Street in Philadelphia where he remained until his death in 1940. ...

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