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    		• French, Daniel Chester,
     
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    		• Baccolini, Dante,
     
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    		• Homage -- Kilbon, Amelia Jeanneatte
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Konkapot, Chief
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Indian
     
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    		• Animal -- Fish
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Lee
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    (The Kilbon Memorial Fountain), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.
    Baccolini, Dante, carver.
    Title: 
    (The Kilbon Memorial Fountain), (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Drinking Fountain Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Nov. 1899.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Lee marble.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 58 x 52 x 45 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On front:) 1899 (On back:) THIS FOUNTAIN WAS BEGUN BY/THE LOYAL TEMPERANCE LEGION/UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF/AMELIA JEANNETTE KILBON AND/WAS COMPLETED BY OTHER FRIENDS/AS A TRIBUTE TO HER MEMORY/1870 1897 unsigned
    Description: 
    A rectangular drinking fountain is adorned on the front with a low, semicircular basin and fish fountain spout, from whose nostrils water bubbles out for people to drink. On the back, a Native American head fountain spout pours water into a deep rectangular basin for watering teams of horses. The Native American is Chief Konkapot, a Mahican Indian who sold settlers the land on which the town of Lee was founded.
    Subject: 
    Homage -- Kilbon, Amelia Jeanneatte
    Portrait male -- Konkapot, Chief -- Head
    Ethnic -- Indian -- Mahican
    Animal -- Fish
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Lee
    Fountain
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Town of Lee, Department of Public Works, Main Street, Lee, Massachusetts 01238
    Located Town Park, Main Street, Lee, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    The public drinking fountain project began with Amelia Jeannette Kilbon, a leader of the children's temperance society known as the Loyal Temperance Legion. The children raised about $36.00, but when Amelia's health failed the project was taken up by the Womens Christian Temperance Union whose fund raising efforts brought the total to $300.00. The fountain became a memorial to Miss Kilbon who died at age twenty-seven. For additional information see the Valley Gleaner, Aug. 25, 1897.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000553
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