.In Twin Peaks Part 5, Special Agent Tammy Preston is seen examining fingerprints at her desk in the FBI Headquarters located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A black and white photo is hanging in the background of what appears to be a statue of a person riding a horse. As it turns out, this Twin Peaks prop has a direct connection to where Tammy’s office is located.
TAMMY PRESTON’S DESK PHOTO
To identify this photo, I needed to crop the image.
Using Photoshop, I cropped and sharpened the image so I could use it for a Google Image search.
Search resulted returned a hit on Alamy.com which listed the image as “George Washington, monument in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.” Ah, now I understand. The photo was placed on Tammy’s desk to show that she was still in Philadelphia (or perhaps she really liked that statute).
It reminds me of the establishing shot of Philadelphia from Part 3 that was taken by Jersey Drone (see more about this footage here).
I saved the Alamy image and performed another Google Image search.
This time, search results returned a link to Amazon.com where the photo was once sold for $11.00. At time of press, it’s currently unavailable.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The only thing I haven’t found yet is who created the original image (which could actually be a drawing and not a photograph).
The Library of Congress has this photo in their collection. It appears to be copyrighted by Philadelphia photographer William H. Rau and was published on April 5, 1897. Yet some of the information is unverified as it contains old data from a caption card. Nevertheless, it is a photo print of the statue, not a drawing.
Click on the image above to download a larger sized image for your Tammy Preston’s Office playset.
HISTORY OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MONUMENT IN PHILADELPHIA
You can still visit the George Washington Monument today in Philadelphia. It’s currently located at the north end Eakins Oval across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The cast bronze statue was created by Rudolf Siemering of Berlin in 1897. The tribute to the first United States President was commissioned by the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania.” They signed a contract with Professor Siemering in 1881 to create this statue who “modeled Washington’s face from photographs, prints, and a copy of a mask made during the late general’s life.”
In May 1898, the monument was unveiled by William McKinley at the Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park. It was moved to its current destination in 1928 when the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was completed.
