Chicago's Second Great Lincoln Statue to Be Erected

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Year:: 1925
Contributor:: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 (sculptor); White, Stanford, 1853-1906 (architect); Crerar, John Chippewa, 1827-1889 (philanthropist)
Genre:: clippings (information artifacts); relief halftones (prints); statues
Subject:: Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865 > Statues > monuments
Local ID:: Pr M156st1 cop.3
Extent:: 2 p.; 20 x 11 cm.

Abstract:: Mounted newspaper clipping announcing the upcoming installation of the Saint-Gaudens statue "Abraham Lincoln: Head of State" in Chicago's Grant Park, with a description of the development of the work by Saint-Gaudens, the bequest by philanthropist John Crerar which made the installation possible, and the architectural work of Stanford White's firm for the foundations. The article includes a halftone image of the statue above the caption "The New St. Gauden's Statue of Lincoln"
Notes:: Second clipping from "Osteopathic Magazine," 1926, mounted on the reverse side.

"Chicago's Second Great Lincoln Statue to Be Erected" (1925). Lincoln Graphics. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:314961/

Chicago's Second Great Lincoln Statue to Be Erected
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Lincoln Graphics

Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …
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