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Ball did not, however, incorporate input from the group on the exact design of the monument. The statue itself depicts President Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation while granting freedom to an African American slave modeled on Archer Alexander, waving his left hand over the freed slave's head in a symbolic gesture. Looking ...
A postcard captioned "Lincoln Statue" depicts the Emancipation Memorial circa 1900.. Harriet Hosmer proposed a grander monument than that suggested by Thomas Ball. Her design, which was ultimately deemed too expensive, posed Lincoln atop a tall central pillar flanked by smaller pillars topped with black Civil War soldiers and other figures.
Archer Alexander (1816 – December 8, 1880) was a formerly enslaved American man who served as the model for the "emancipated slave" in the Emancipation Memorial 1876 located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C.
The descendants of formerly enslaved man, Archer Alexander, who helped Union soldiers during the Civil War, will celebrate his role The post Relatives of enslaved man, who helped Union troops ...
Archer Alexander at Lincoln Park; Dante Alighieri in Meridian Hill Park; José Artigas at 18th Street and Constitution Avenue NW; Francis Asbury at 16th and Mount Pleasant Streets NW; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at the Turkish Embassy, 2525 Massachusetts Avenue NW; Marion Barry in front of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW ...
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Jason Alexander, who starred as George Costanza on Seinfeld, stepped out for a casual outing in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 24. The post Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander Looks Unrecognizable ...
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