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    		• Weinman, Adolph A.,
     
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    		• White, Stanford,
     
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    		• Whale Creek Iron Works,
     
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    		• Peterson Iron Works,
     
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    		• McKim, Mead & White,
     
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    		• P. J. Carlin Construction Co.,
     
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    		• Architecture -- Detail
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn
     
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    Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Weinman, Adolph A., 1870-1952, sculptor.
    White, Stanford, 1853-1906, architect.
    Whale Creek Iron Works, founder.
    Peterson Iron Works, founder.
    McKim, Mead & White, architectural firm.
    P. J. Carlin Construction Co., contractor.
    Title: 
    Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated November 17, 1908.
    Medium: 
    Tripod, urn and eagle: bronze; Column: Newport white granite; Steps: Maine pink granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Monument: H. 190 ft.; Urn: 22 x 12 ft.; Eagle: 2 ft.; Column: 150 x 18 ft.
    Description: 
    Pink granite steps lead up from street level to a platform on which sits a 150 foot white granite fluted column surmounted by a bronze funeral urn lit from within. Column has an internal elevator.
    Subject: 
    Architecture -- Detail -- Column
    Animal -- Bird -- Eagle
    Object Type: 
    Gravestone
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Fort Greene Park, DeKalb Avenue and St. Edward Street, Brooklyn, New York
    Remarks: 
    This monument, a tomb containing the remains of the American sailors, soldiers and citizens who perished aboard the prison ships of the British in Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary War was dedicated in 1908 by President Taft. Erected with funds supplied by the Federal Government, the State of New York and the City of New York on land bestowed by John Jackson. Cost four hundred thirty-seven thousand dollars. Some repair work done in 1937. Monument committee: Prison Ship Martyrs.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    The City of New York, Department of Parks, 1941.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY5127, 1989.
    Monumental News, May, Sept., Oct., and Nov. 1905; March and Aug. 1908; Jan., March, and April 1914.
    Smart, Mary, "A Flight with Fame: the life and art of Frederick MacMonnies, with a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture and a Checklist of Paintings by E. Adina Gordon," Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1996, no. 52.
    Illustration: 
    Monumental News, Sept. 1905, pg.616.
    Monumental News, Aug. 1908, pg.571.
    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 76003591
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