page_title: Samuel Yellin
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Yellin / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Shop of Samuel Yellin, Ironworker, Philadelphia, PA.
context_page_description: Samuel Yellin, was an American master blacksmith, and metal designer.
context_section_description: Samuel Yellin was born to a Jewish family in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Ukraine in the Russian Empire in 1884. At the age of eleven, he was apprenticed to a master ironsmith. By the age of sixteen he had completed his apprenticeship. Shortly afterwards he left the Ukraine and traveled through Europe. In about 1905, he arrived in Philadelphia, in the United States, where his mother and two sisters were already living; his brother arrived in Philadelphia at about the same time. Starting in early 1906, Samuel Yellin took classes at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, and within several months he was teaching classes there, a position that he maintained until 1919.
  In 1909, he opened his own metalsmith shop. In 1915, the firm of Mellor, Meigs & Howe, for whom he designed and created many commissions, designed a new studio for Samuel Yellin Metalworkers at 5520 Arch Street in Philadelphia. Samuel Yellin died in 1940, but the firm remained there for decades under direction of Samuel Yellin's son, Harvey.
  During the building boom of the 1920s, Samuel Yellin Metalworkers employed as many as 250 workers, many of them European artisans. Although Yellin was highly knowledgeable about traditional craftsmanship and design, he also championed creativity and the development of new designs. Samuel Yellin's works can be found in some of the finest buildings in America.
caption: Yellin Studio (1915).
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