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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:
- WMONI_210914_07.JPG: All That Live Must Die.
A Tribute of Respect from the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dramatic Profession of America, 1853.
- WMONI_210914_13.JPG: Rock source change
- WMONI_210914_16.JPG: From Fort Greene
Battle Ground of Long Island
A tribute from the Fort Greene Guard of Brooklyn, 1854
- WMONI_210914_27.JPG: Corporation of the City of New York
1852
- WMONI_210915_45.JPG: Anno 1850
By the City of Baltimore
- WMONI_210915_58.JPG: Anno 1850. By the City of Baltimore.
May Heaven To This Union Continue Its Beneficence; May Brotherly Affection With be Perpetual; May The Free Constitution Which is the Work of Our Ancestors be Sacredly Maintained and its Administration be Stamped With Wisdom and With Virtue.
- WMONI_210916_06.JPG: By the Class of 1853-54
- WMONI_210916_29.JPG: From Otter's Summit
Virginia's Loftiest Peak
to Crown a Monument
To Virginia's Noblest Son
Company I
4 Regiment Infantry
USA
1 March 1851
- WMONI_210916_55.JPG: Some of the Civil War-era graffiti on the main floor.
- WMONI_210916_61.JPG: F. Rohleder
- WMONI_210916_80.JPG: Very old graffiti! DC Hickey, a Union soldier, carved his name and a silhouette of George Washington when he was stationed in DC in 1861. At that point, the monument was only partially completed.
- WMONI_210917_01.JPG: All That Live Must Die.
A Tribute of Respect from the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dramatic Profession of America, 1853.
- WMONI_210917_12.JPG: From Fort Greene
Battle Ground of Long Island
A tribute from the Fort Greene Guard of Brooklyn, 1854
- WMONI_210917_15.JPG: Corporation of the City of New York
1852
- WMONI_210918_08.JPG: From
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia
By the Class of 1853-4
- WMONI_210918_10.JPG: Include in notes
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/wamo/history/appd.htm
To Washington, An Humble Tribute from Two Disciples of Daguerre
- WMONI_210918_11.JPG: First Regiment of Light Infantry, Mass. Vol. Militia, Boston, 1853
- WMONI_210918_13.JPG: Anno 1850.
By the City of Baltimore.
May Heaven To This Union Continue Its Beneficence; May Brotherly Affection With be Perpetual; May The Free Constitution Which is the Work of Our Ancestors be Sacredly Maintained and its Administration be Stamped With Wisdom and With Virtue
- WMONI_210918_19.JPG: Corporation of the City of New York, 1852
- WMONI_210920_29.JPG: I.O.O.F. Massachusetts
American Whig Society, College of New Jersey, Princeton. A Tribute to Washington.
From the Alumni of Washington College, at Lexington, Virginia. The Only College Endowed by the Father of His Country.
- WMONI_211003_03.JPG: On one of my trips up, I noticed the screen display which talked about "The Washington Monumnent" (sic)
- WMONI_211003_07.JPG: When the spell-checker worked.
- WMONI_211005_06.JPG: From Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. By the Class of 1853-4.
- WMONI_211005_14.JPG: First Regiment of Light Infantry Mass. Vol. Militia Boston 1853
- WMONI_211005_22.JPG: By the City of Baltimore Anno 1850
From https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwic9YLz3Jv0AhUnqXIEHWGNAGkQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nps.gov%2Fparkhistory%2Fonline_books%2Fwamo%2Fstones.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0xQGD8LMBvLONUFXK20J8E
1851: During the year 1851, the City Councils of Baltimore passed a resolution authorizing the Mayor and the two Presidents of the branches to have prepared and forwarded to Washington a suitable stone as the contribution of Baltimore to . . . the Washington National Monument. . . . They gave the contract to Messrs. Cyrus Gault & Brother and accordingly a block of granite was quarried from the ground of Mr. Amon Lowry, of Howard county, Md., and the work assigned to Mr. William F. Atkinson, one of the most skillful and excellent artisans to be found in any shop. He commenced the pleasing yet arduous task on the 28th of April, 1851, and with the aid at times of a fellow workman, succeeded in its completion a few days since, after nearly two and a half years of ardent application. The stone measures six feet square and 17 inches deep, and presents a faithful model of the Battle Monument. (Monument Square.) cut from the solid block. . . . The Goddess of Liberty at the top, with an eagle at her side, the Griffins and other figures at the top of the pedestal, requiring the most difficult and elaborate carving, have all been executed in a style of work which surpasses any similar work in granite. . . ." [Republican Compiler (Gettysburg), September 26, 1853.]
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