Roger Williams Monument
date: label: date made
content: ca 1877
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on orange cardstock; photograph by Leander Baker; printed on recto "Providence Views. / Leander Baker, Photographer"; handwritten on verso in pencil "Roger Williams Monument"; bronze statue of a standing man (Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island) holding a book in his left arm on top of a stone base; female figure (Clio) clad in Greek style robes holding a quill in her right hand and inscribing the name of Roger Williams onto the plaque, at her feet is a shield, scroll and wreath; the quill, shield, scroll and wreath are now missing (2020); statue designed by Franklin Simmons (his granite statue of Roger Williams stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building)
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Monuments
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0594
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0594
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 7 in; 10.16 cm x 17.78 cm