More than 763,000 pieces of tile, each 1 square inch in size, went into the mural on the west exterior wall of the Pershing Center.
The panel was put together in 1-by-2 foot sections over three months by the Cambridge Tile Co. in Cincinnati and shipped to Lincoln.
In Lincoln, tile setters worked from numbers on the back of each section, mounting the sections against a plaster base on metal channels projecting out from the building.
Installed for little more than the cost of stone, the mural has a life expectancy equal to that of the building.
Forty different shades of color, delicate and subdued, are found in the design.
-- Excerpted from the dedication brochure for Pershing Auditorium
