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    		• Gerhardt, Karl,
     
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    		• Ames Manufacturing Company,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Hoboken
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gerhardt, Karl, 1853-1940, sculptor.
    Ames Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1887. Dedicated May 30, 1888.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.
    Inscription: 
    sculptor KARL Gerhardt 1887 / Ames Bronze Foundry, Chicopee, Mass. (On front of base, raised letters:) ERECTED/BY THE CITIZENS OF/HOBOKEN/IN MEMORY OF THEIR FALLEN HEROES/1861--1865 (Bronze plaque on front of base, raised letters:) DEDICATED/(...transcription illegible) signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A standing Civil War soldier holding the barrel of his rifle with both hands. The soldier has a moustache and is dressed in a long overcoat with a cape. The sculpture is mounted on a tall square shaft base. The upper section of the base is decorated with relief scrolls and stars. On the front of the base is a relief of a wreath with a sword through it. The monument is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. On either side of the fence are two large canons.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New Jersey -- Hoboken
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Stevens Park, Between 4th, 5th, & Hudson, Hoboken, New Jersey
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Hudson Square Park, Between 4th, 5th, & Hudson, Hoboken, New Jersey
    Remarks: 
    The cost of erecting the monument was $4,000 which was funded by a subscription sponsored by the Evening News. A box containing a various papers including a Hackensack Bank bill bearing the portrait of Edwin Augustus Stevens were placed in the cornerstone of the base. The cannons placed on either side of the sculpture were taken from the war ship "Portsmouth." In 1955, Hudson Square Park was renamed Stevens Park. IAS files contain an excerpt from John J. Heaney's "The Bicentennial Comes to Hoboken."
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS NJ000358
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