Title Information

Title

Underground Railroad Sculpture (Oberlin, Ohio)

Name: Personal (Local)

Name Part

Armstrong, Cameron

Name Part: Date

1956-

Role

Role Term: Text (marcrelator)

sculptor

Name: Personal (Local)

Name Part

Jacobson, Geoffrey

Role

Role Term: Text (marcrelator)

Creator

Type of Resource (primo) (authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE")

images

Genre (aat) (valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300046300", authorityURI="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/")

photographs

Abstract: general (displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")

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.

Note: image_accessibility_alt_text

Underground Railroad Sculpture in front of Talcott Hall, Oberlin College

Note: preferredcitation

Underground Railroad Sculpture (Oberlin, Ohio), Brown University Library

Origin Information

Date Created

1977

Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")

1977

Place

Place Term: Text (naf) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82062525")

Oberlin (Ohio)

Access Condition: rights statement (href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/")

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Access Condition: restriction on access

Collection is open for research.

Identifier: Local (displayLabel="filename")

underground-railroad-plaque-oberlin-2021

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/)