Monument to Commodore Matthew C. Perry
date: label: date made
content: ca 1869-05
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Perry, Matthew C.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; statue of Commodore Matthew C. Perry designed by John Quincy Adams Ward in 1869; pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt; located in Touro Park in Newport, R.I.; image of a monument with a bronze statue of a man on top of a stone pedestral with a square wrought-iron fence surrounding it set in a park-like setting; statue of man is standing with a sword pointed towards ground in his left hand and drawing his cape up to his chest in his right hand; printed on label on verso "Statue of Com. M. C. Perry, / Newport, R.I. / Photographed by J.A. Williams, / No. 2 Downing's Block."; photograph by J.A. Williams
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
topic: label: Subject
content: Sailors
label: Subject
content: War of 1812
label: Subject
content: Mexican War
label: Subject
content: United States Navy
label: related event
content: War of 1812
label: related event
content: Mexican War
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Military
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0613
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0613
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm