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Homage -- Dietzel, Oscar
Homage -- Dietzel, Maggie B.
Architecture -- Vehicle
Disaster -- Accident
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn
Gravestone
Monument to Oscar (1862-1893) and Maggie B. (1870-1893) Dietzel, (sculpture).
Artist:
Unknown, sculptor.
Title:
Monument to Oscar (1862-1893) and Maggie B. (1870-1893) Dietzel, (sculpture).
Medium:
Stone.
Description:
Monument adorned with a carving of the train crash that took the lives of Oscar and Maggie B. Dietzel on August 26, 1893.
Subject:
Homage -- Dietzel, Oscar
Homage -- Dietzel, Maggie B.
Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train
Disaster -- Accident
Object Type:
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn
Gravestone
Owner:
Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232
Remarks:
Oscar and Maggie B. Dietzel died when a Rockaway Beach train crashed into the back of a Manhattan Beach train returning from Coney Island on August 26, 1893. Oscar Dietzel was a partner in the firm of Dietzel and Grossenbach, a New York City firm that manufactured braid.
References:
Richmond, Jeffrey I., "Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure," Brooklyn, NY: Green-Wood Cemetery, 2008, pg. 161-162.
Illustration:
Richmond, Jeffrey I., "Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure," Brooklyn, NY: Green-Wood Cemetery, 2008, pg. 161.
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 68320050
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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