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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Dress -- Historic
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Chesapeake City
     
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    (World War I Monument, Chesapeake City), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (World War I Monument, Chesapeake City), (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Nov. 11, 1919.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 2 ft. 1/2 in. x 4 ft. 1/2 in. x 2 in.; Base: approx. 5 ft. 11 in. x 6 ft. 6 in. x 2 ft. 8 1/2 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque on left:) DEDICATED (On plaque on right:) NOVEMBER 19, 1919 (On sculpture:) ROLL OF HONOR/LEST WE FORGET/KILLED IN ACTION/(3 names)/DIED OF DISEASE/(2 names)/(61 names)/COLORED/(10 names)/THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED BY THE PEOPLE OF CHESAPEAKE CITY AND THE SECOND ELECTION DISTRICT OF CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND/TO THOSE OF THEIR NUMBER WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF HUMANITY IN THE GREAT WAR OF NATIONS 1914-1918 unsigned
    Description: 
    Honor Roll relief plaque is installed on a marker with a rough-hewn base. The relief includes two allegorical female figures in Classical dress and a list of seventy-one names in four columns. The figure on the left holds a wreath in her proper left hand. The wreath encircles five of the names. The figure on the right holds a laurel branch in her extended proper right hand and a sword in her proper left hand. The tablet is framed on each side by a pilaster and topped by a cornice with an ornamental frieze.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- World War I
    Figure group -- Female
    Dress -- Historic -- Classical Dress
    Object -- Other -- Wreath
    Object -- Foliage -- Laurel
    Object -- Weapon -- Sword
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Chesapeake City
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Town of Chesapeake City, Town Hall, Bohemia Street, Chesapeake City, Maryland 21915
    Remarks: 
    Erected by the Town of Chesapeake City in memory of its citizens who died in World War I.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Maryland 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 MD000510
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