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    		• Gladwin, Steve,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Brown, John
     
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    		• Ethnic -- African American
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Animal -- Bird
     
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    		• Fountain
     
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    		• Obelisk
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Akron
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    John Brown Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gladwin, Steve, sculptor. (possibly by)
    Title: 
    John Brown Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1910. Installed Aug. 21, 1910. Plaque and tablet dedicated Sept. 25, 1938.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Sandstone on a sandstone base.
    Dimensions: 
    Shaft: approx. H. 280 in.; Tablet: approx. 98 1/2 x 40 x 20 in.; Plaque: Diam approx. 49 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Bronze tablet plaque:) GLADWIN (Bronze plaque on east side of monument:) IN MEMORY OF/JOHN BROWN/ERECTED BY/GERMAN AMERICAN/ALLIANCE/AUGUST 21st, 1910/AKRON, OHIO (Portrait plaque:) JOHN BROWN/1800-1859 (Below plaque:) HE DIED TO SET HIS/BROTHERS FREE/HIS SOUL/GOES MARCHING ON/DEDICATED SEPT. 25th 1938 BY/THE NEGRO 25 YEAR CLUB/OF AKRON, OHIO signed
    Description: 
    Sited within an octagonal plaza, a circular shaft setting on a square pedestal. The shaft is topped with an orb which once included an eagle. The exedra wall surrounding the shaft includes a sandstone tablet with fountain basin at bottom. Inset into the tablet is a bronze bas-relief of John Brown.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Brown, John -- Bust
    Ethnic -- African American
    Occupation -- Other -- Reformer
    Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
    Object Type: 
    Fountain
    Obelisk
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Ohio -- Akron
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City of Akron, Facilities Maintenance, 217 South High Street, Akron, Ohio 44308
    Located Auldfarm, east of Perkins Park Drive, Akron, Ohio
    Remarks: 
    The monument was erected in 1910 by the German-American Alliance. The sandstone shaft had once been a column in the portico of the original 1843 Summit County Courthouse, which was demolished to make way for the present building in 1908. The shaft was topped by a cast spread eagle perched on a stone orb. In 1938, a bronze plaque with a bas-relief of John Brown was placed on a large round-arched panel of stone set into the low, open octagonal wall surrounding the monument. The city of Akron rededicated the memorial during the sesquicentennial in 1975, but the eagle, which had been destroyed in the tornado of 1943, has never been replaced.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1993.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, OH0107, 1989.
    Monumental News, Oct. 1910, pg. 744.
    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 OH000066
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