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The statue of Abraham Lincoln with the inscription in the background in August 2015. The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble [1] [vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal. The figure of Lincoln gazes ...
The memorials include the name of the capital of Nebraska (1867). The first public monument to Abraham Lincoln, after his death, was a statue erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after his assassination.
The Lincoln Monument is a bust of Abraham Lincoln by Robert Russin, 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet (3.8 m) high and resting on a 30-foot-tall (9.1 m) granite pedestal, [1] at the Summit Rest Area on Interstate 80 east of Laramie, Wyoming. Russin originally erected the sculpture in 1959 nearby on Sherman Hill, overlooking the old U.S. Highway 30 (Lincoln ...
Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington a century ago honored a man who gave his life for his country.
Statue of Abraham Lincoln: New York City, New York. Union Square. 1870 Henry Kirke Brown: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Portland, Oregon. South Park Blocks. 1928 George Fite Waters Statue of Abraham Lincoln: San Francisco, California. Civic Center. 1926 Haig Patigian: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia City Hall. 1868 ...
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.An example of neoclassicism, it is in the form of a classical temple and is located at the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Henry Bacon is the memorial's architect and Daniel Chester French designed the large interior statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920 ...
Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling that — for the moment — the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress. The spectrum of ...
Lincoln seated statue sculpted by Daniel Chester French "He saved the Union" Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., includes monuments to 16 Union generals, admirals and others; Lincoln Statue by sculptor Lot Flannery, 1868; Abraham Lincoln by Vinnie Ream, located in the Capitol Rotunda, 1871; General John A. Rawlins, Joseph A. Bailly ...