Cool Life Insurance images

A few nice life insurance images I found:

Detail, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company Door (Philadelphia, PA)


Image by takomabibelot
See also:
www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/2558752558/

Here’s a 1930 photo of the building:
books.google.com/books?id=hlv8HKa3sdAC&pg=PA32&dq…

But what artist did the bronze doors?

And I can’t tell what these guys are doing. Is that a hopper on top of that drum there?

Kind of wish they had a hand guard there. No mistake that this is on the door to a life insurance company!