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NSO 2007 > Life at Penn > The Button

Created by Claes Oldenberg and installed in front of Van Pelt Library in 1981, the Button is 16 feet in diameter, weighs 5,000 pounds, and is cast in reinforced aluminum. Oldenberg once told the Philadelphia Inquirer that "the Split represents the Schuylkill. It divides the button into four parts—for William Penn's original Philadelphia squares."

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