Description
- Abstract:
- Wooden railroad tracks emerge from the ground, reaching upward. This sculpture commemorates Oberlin's role in the Underground Railroad. Cameron Armstrong (then a senior at Oberlin College) created the sculpture in 1977 as part of a class art project.
- Notes:
- Underground Railroad Sculpture (Oberlin, Ohio), Brown University Library
- 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/)
Access Conditions
- Rights
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Jacobson, Geoffrey,
"Underground Railroad Sculpture (Oberlin, Ohio)"
(1977).
Underground Railroad.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:e4nf9gsk/
Relations
Collection:
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Underground Railroad
...The memorial and monuments in this collection are dedicated to the Underground Railroad, an organized network of routes and safe houses that assisted freedom seekers [enslaved people] on their journeys northward. The Underground Railroad was part of the larger movement …