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    		• Albright, Henry James,
     
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    		• Occupation -- Science
     
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    		• Homage -- Eaton, Amos
     
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    		• Homage -- Gebhard, John, Sr.
     
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    		• Homage -- Gebhard, John, Jr.
     
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    		• Homage -- Hall, James
     
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    		• Homage -- Mather, William H.
     
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    		• Homage -- Vanuxem, Lardner
     
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    		• Homage -- Eights, James
     
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    		• Homage -- Lyell, Charles, Sir
     
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    		• Homage -- Silliman, Benjamin
     
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    		• Homage -- Dana, James D.
     
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    		• Homage -- Rogers, Henry D.
     
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    		• Homage -- Rogers, William B.
     
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    		• Homage -- Roemer, Ferdinand
     
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    		• Homage -- De Verneuil, Edouard
     
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    		• Homage -- Agassiz, Louis
     
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    		• Homage -- Desor, Edouard
     
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    		• Homage -- Logan, William, Sir
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- New Salem
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Memorial to Pioneer Geologists, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Albright, Henry James, 1887-1951, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Memorial to Pioneer Geologists, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Fossil Relief Plaque, (sculpture).
    Thacher Park Plaque, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Nov. 5, 1933.
    Medium: 
    Bronze.
    Inscription: 
    H. J. Albright, Sculptor (On plaque:) IN MEMORY OF/THOSE PIONEER GEOLOGISTS/WHOSE RESEARCHES IN THE/HELDERBURGS FROM 1819 TO 1850/MADE THIS REGION CLASSIC/GROUND. AMONG THEM/AMOS EATON/THE JOHN GEBHARDS, SR & JR/JAMES HALL/WILLIAM W. MATHER/LARDNER VANUXEM/JAMES EIGHTS/SIR CHARLES LYELL/BENJAMIN SILLIMAN/JAMES D. DANA/HENRY D. ROGERS/WILLIAM B. ROGERS/FERDINAND ROEMER/EDOUARD DE VERNEUIL/LOUIS AGASSIZ/EDOUARD DESOR/SIR WILLIAM LOGAN/PLACED BY/TAWASENTHA CHAPTER, N.S.D.A.R./AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK/IN THE YEAR 1933 signed
    Description: 
    Memorial plaque bearing the names of seventeen geologists is bordered with fossils typical of those in the formations of the successive geologic ages. The fossils are arranged in approximate chronological order as one reads from the bottom up.
    Subject: 
    Occupation -- Science -- Geologist
    Homage -- Eaton, Amos
    Homage -- Gebhard, John, Sr.
    Homage -- Gebhard, John, Jr.
    Homage -- Hall, James
    Homage -- Mather, William H.
    Homage -- Vanuxem, Lardner
    Homage -- Eights, James
    Homage -- Lyell, Charles, Sir
    Homage -- Silliman, Benjamin
    Homage -- Dana, James D.
    Homage -- Rogers, Henry D.
    Homage -- Rogers, William B.
    Homage -- Roemer, Ferdinand
    Homage -- De Verneuil, Edouard
    Homage -- Agassiz, Louis
    Homage -- Desor, Edouard
    Homage -- Logan, William, Sir
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- New Salem
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by State of New York, New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Saratoga Springs State Park, Box W, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
    Located John Boyd Thacher Park, Entrance to Indian Ladder Trail, New Salem, New York
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture is a memorial to the pioneering geologists who made this locality famous with their study of the Helderberg fossils. The memorial was erected by the State of New York and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Tawasentha Chapter. IAS files contain the dedication program with a key to the fossils on the plaque. The sculpture was restored in the 1980s by Heidi Miksh, a conservator with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Waterford, New York.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993.
    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 NY001725
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