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The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze, fire-gilded statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States.. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial Bridge approaches, their completion was delayed until 1939 for budgeta
The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
In the course of their careers, Carl Paul Jennewein and his partner Warren Straton produced at least five monumental eagles: one at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, another on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, connecting Arlington with Washington, D.C., the third on the Federal Office Building in New York, the ...
The New York State Department of Labor (DOL or NYSDOL) is the department of the New York state government that enforces labor law and administers unemployment benefits. [1] [2] The mission of the New York State Department of Labor is to protect workers, assist the unemployed and connect job seekers to jobs, according to its website. [1]
New York State Monument (1893) New York Auxiliary State Monument (1925) Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg, 1914 also includes several portrait statues, Abraham Lincoln (1911–13) by J. Otto Schweizer, west side; Governor Andrew Curtin (1911–13) by William Clark Noble, west side; General George Meade (1911–13) by Lee Lawrie, north side
The Arts of War sculptures, Sacrifice and Valor, flanking the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. (dedicated 1951) Four Freedoms statues, New York World's Fair (1940) American Military Cemetery, Hamm, Luxembourg; Covered Wagon sculptural panels, Oregon State Capitol, Salem, OR (1934)
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Statue of Christopher Columbus (Newburgh, New York) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Yonkers, New York) Statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Statue of Frederick Douglass (Rochester, New York) Statue of Lucille Ball (Celoron, New York) Statue of Robert Burns (Albany, New York) Statue of Sally Ride; Statue of Thomas Jefferson (Hempstead, New York)