- Title Information
- Title
- Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad (Detroit, Michigan)
- Name:
Personal (Local)
- Name Part
- Dwight, Ed
- Name Part:
Date
- 1933-
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- sculptor
- Name:
Personal (Local)
- Name Part
- veritas vita (Waymarking)
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- Creator
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- images
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- photographs
- Abstract:
general
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- Two gateway pillars (approximately fifteen feet tall), topped with candles symbolizing the “Flame of Freedom,” flank Ed Dwight's memorial to the Underground Railroad. The work, which overlooks the Detroit River, includes a ten-by-twelve-foot sculptural group: eight escaping enslaved African Americans and an Underground Railroad Conductor, who gazes and points towards Canada.
- Note:
image_accessibility_alt_text
- Memorial to the Underground Railroad with a ten-by-twelve-foot sculptural group depicting eight escaping enslaved African Americans and an Underground Railroad Conductor
- Note:
preferredcitation
- Gateway to Freedom: International Memorial to the Underground Railroad (Detroit, Michigan), Brown University Library
- Origin Information
- Date Created
- October 20, 2001
- Date Created:
Start
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- 2001-10-20
- Place
- Place Term:
Text (naf)
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- Detroit (Mich.)
- Access Condition:
rights statement
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- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.
- Identifier:
Local
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- gateway-to-freedom-detroit-2013
- Note
(displayLabel="Digital object made available by")
- Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)