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The statue, 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 first public memorial to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination in Ford’s Theatre. [5] [6] Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death.
The narrative panels were unveiled by Hamilton at the same 2009 dedication ceremony as the Lincoln Memorial sculpture. [7] [5] The reliefs, placed side-by-side along a path to the statue, contain text and depict various times of Lincoln's life. The first panel describes Lincoln's childhood, and the second shows how slavery and the Civil War ...
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's name and image appear in numerous other places, such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, [9] Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana, [10] Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois, [11] and Lincoln ...
For more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting on a rock in Louisville, Kentucky’s Waterfront Park and, until recently, the ...
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial at Lincoln Park; Sir William Blackstone at Third Street and Constitution Avenue NW; Equestrian of Simón Bolívar at 18th and C Streets and Virginia Avenue NW; Simon Bolivar, Libertador at the Organization of American States, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW; Chuck Brown Memorial at Langdon Park, 2900 block of ...
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 ...