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    Firemen's Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Richmond Monuments, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Firemen's Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1972. Dedicated June 1973.
    Medium: 
    Granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 2 1/2 x 1 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front:) IN MEMORY OF DEPARTED MEMBERS/DIGHTON FIRE DEPARTMENT
    Description: 
    A low granite stele engraved with an image of a fireman carrying a young girl down a fire ladder.
    Subject: 
    Figure male -- Waist length
    Figure female -- Child
    Occupation -- Service -- Fireman
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Dighton
    Relief
    Stele
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Town of Dighton, Dighton, Massachusetts
    Located Dighton Elementary School, Somerset Avenue, Dighton, Massachusetts
    Remarks: 
    This memorial purchased by the Fireman's Association in Oct. 1972 honors Dighton firefighters who have lost their lives. IAS files contain a copy of the Massachusetts Historical Commission Form C - Monuments questionnaire.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000447
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