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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MURGBA_190525_070.JPG: "Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. [Note that the closing quote had been left off] -- Frederick Douglass [The rest of the quote is "The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening."]
2. MURGBA_190525_091.JPG: "28 Blocks" Designed and hand painted by Garin Baker, 2017 Installation Crew: Bryan Guglielmi Julia Lenihan New Windsor, NY www.garinbaker.com
3. MURGBA_190525_098.JPG: "Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. [Note that the closing quote had been left off] -- Frederick Douglass [The rest of the quote is "The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening."] "28 Blocks" Designed and hand painted by Garin Baker, 2017 Installation Crew: Bryan Guglielmi Julia Lenihan New Windsor, NY www.garinbaker.com
4. MURGBA_190707_02.JPG: The view of the mural from the Metro train. It's about the only place on the line where you have to endure a wiremesh fence.
5. MURGBA_191226_04.JPG: Some graffiti vandalism. Black People > U
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Description of Subject Matter: Massive new mural in D.C. pays tribute to the men who built the Lincoln Memorial statue

By Perry Stein
September 1, 2017

It might have been the simple gray tones of the hulking monument under construction. Or maybe it was the contours of muscular men hard at work on what would become one of the most venerated statues in the nation. Or possibly it was the words beneath it:

"Without culture there can be no growth. . . . Without action, no progress. And without conflict, no victory." — Frederick Douglass.

Whatever it was, joggers stopped, cyclists dismounted and Metro riders peered out their windows during evening commuting hours this week to glimpse the newly installed mural that pays homage to the workers who built the statue in the Lincoln Memorial.

"It's beautiful," said Prameeka Patura, 27, who passed by the mural on an evening walk. "It's very creative. Now I'm thinking I need to go back and look up all this history."

"28 Blocks" by New York artist Garin Baker sits along the Metropolitan Branch Trail — a popular pedestrian and cyclist commuter trail in Northeast Washington that is surrounded by train tracks to the east and industrial buildings on the west. It is a tribute to the men — many of whom were the first and second generation of black men born free — who built the 120-ton marble statue. Italian immigrants also helped build the statue, which was designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French to sit in the memorial, planned by architect Henry Bacon.

The name comes from the 28 blocks of marble used to erect the statue between 1914 and 1922. The marble was carved from mountains in northwestern Georgia by the sons of African slaves, according to the D.C. Department of General Services. The marble was then sent to New York, where the statue was carved block by block. The blocks were later transported from New York to Washington through Union Station, upon which they were assembled for the first time.

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