Creating an element-wise minimum Series from two other Series in Python Pandas

Question

I am having trouble finding a way to do an efficient element-wise minimum of two Series objects in pandas. For example I can add two Series easily enough:

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Answer 1

Another similar way:

In [11]: pd.DataFrame([s1, s2]).min()
Out[11]:
1    1
2    1
3    1
4    1
dtype: float64