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Title: Statues of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Memorial
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Presidents Marble sculpture, American Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Large-scale sculpture
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columns, one for each stateexisting at the time of Lincolnsdeath. Within the central hall is a colossal figure of the martyr-Presi-dent—the work of Daniel ChesterFrench. On opposite walls, and sepa-rated from the central hall by a rowof four Ionic columns, are two me-morial tablets, one containing Lin-colns Gettysburg address, the otherhis second inaugural address. Abovethe tablets are two large muralpaintings, Emancipation andReunion, by Jules Guerin. The Lincoln Memorial stands in amost fitting setting at the westernend of the Mall, on the axis of theWashington Monument and theCapitol. It has an impressive ap-proach of broad steps and wide ter-races that lend it an air of solitaryand dignified grandeur typical of theman whose memory it perpetuates. The Lincoln Memorial, designedby Henry Bacon, is conceded to bethe finest monument ever erected tothe memory of a man. Many peoplehave pronounced it the most beauti-ful building erected anywhere sincethe beginning of the Christian era.
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© Harris & Ewlng THE MAJESTIC LINCOLN MEMORIAL Page Thirty-nine Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette i MEMORIAL MEDITATION Shrine Reflects A Man Of Kindness EDITORS NOTE^Miss Margaret Jewett, Celina, Ohio,English teacher and a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University,prepared this essay recently from a meditation in front of theLincoln Memorial. The composition, which strangely appearsto convey the thoughts of the Great Emancipator, was runner-up in a national contest. By MARGARET JEWETT This shrine is a perfect tribute to a man of kindness.There are no flags here; no murals. But here are en-graved the eternal truths he spoke at Gettysburg andin his Second Inaugural Address. I see reflected here in the pool before this chaste memorial the shadows of Lin- coins struggle and sorrows.There are also disturbed, wav-ering outlines of happiness; ofsolace in hard-earned achieve-ment. In the spacious hall of thistemple to The Great Emanci-pator is the seated bronze fig-ure of this man. I am held bythe

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