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The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial is a sculpture garden located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The garden, located along the left bank of the Schuylkill River between Boathouse Row and the Girard Avenue Bridge, was established by the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) and dedicated in 1961.
Statue of Mary McLeod Bethune: Mary McLeod Bethune: U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. Future To represent Florida, replacing statue of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved: African Americans enslaved by the College of William & Mary College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: May 2022 [9] Emancipation and ...
Whitney Plantation Historic District, near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana; The Good Darky in n Natchitoches, Louisiana [21] Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument in Alton, Illinois [22] The Florida Slavery Memorial at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee; Harriet Tubman Memorial in Manhattan in New York City
Statue of Robert Geffrye: London: Robert Geffrye was an English merchant who made part of his wealth from slavery, and part-owned a slave ship. A petition was raised for the removal of his statue outside the Museum of the Home; the Museum elected to "reinterpret and contextualise" the statue in its current location. [14]
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This is a list of public artworks in Philadelphia. The Association for Public Art estimates the city has hundreds of public artworks; [ 1 ] the Smithsonian lists more than 700. [ 2 ] Since 1959 nearly 400 works of public art have been created as part of the city's Percent for Art program, the first such program in the U.S. [ 3 ]
For nearly 100 years, Robert E. Lee's 10,000-pound monument rode high over the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. Now, it's been melted into bronze slabs and another memorial in town has risen to ...
Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia photo by John Moran, c. 1865 Wissahickon Creek with Wissahickon Memorial Bridge in Background, 2008 The Teedyuscung statue. Though at first fairly tame, in its last 7 miles (11 km), the Wissahickon stream drops over 100 feet (30 m) in altitude.