Lafayette Statue
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bartlett, Paul Wayland, 1865-1925
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content: Paul Wayland Bartlett papers
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content: Paul Wayland Bartlett papers / Series 1: Correspondence
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content: 1899-1908
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content: Reel 4900, Frame 095-448
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Microform [31027000149928]
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content: This correspondence, heaviest in 1899-1900, deals with the Lafayette commission, from the first proposals to the Lafayette Memorial Commission (set up to administer the gift from the children of the United States to the French government) to the final disposition in the 1908. Correspondents include Thomas Hastings, of Carrere and Hastings, who designed the base for the statue; G. Redon, architect of the Louvre, where the statue was to be placed; Bartlett's attorneys, Boese and Carhart, concerning edless disputes about all aspects of the commission. In 1907-1908, the correspondence also deals with the foundry casting the statue and siputes with the Lafayette Memorial Commission concerning the long delay in completing the project.