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Lincoln monument (Standing Lincoln), detail

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Description: Lincoln monument (Standing Lincoln), detail

TitleLincoln monument (Standing Lincoln), detail

Creator nameSaint-Gaudens, Augustus

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1887

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

LocationLincoln Park, Chicago

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPublic sculpture, American--19th centuryLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Presidents--United States

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Chapter 4: Freedom’s Memorial

Description: Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century...

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (New Edition)

ON THE NATIONAL STAGE, in the center of political power, a monument to “freedom” finally emerged. This was the Freedmen’s Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, a project begun immediately after Lincoln’s death and completed finally in 1876—neatly spanning the whole era of Reconstruction. Financed entirely by contributions from free...

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

Copyright© 2018 by Princeton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.89-128

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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, American--19th centuryLincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865Slaves--Emancipation--United States--19th centuryNational monuments--United StatesDouglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908Soldiers, BlackMills, Clark, 1810-1883

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