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    		• Toatley, Jim,
     
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    		• Portrait male -- Temple, Lewis
     
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    		• Object -- Tool
     
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    		• Occupation -- Craft
     
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    		• Occupation -- Science
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Lewis Temple, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Toatley, Jim, 1941-1986, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Lewis Temple, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Blacksmith, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed July 5, 1987.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 6 ft.; Base: approx. 6 x 6 x 6 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On plaque on front of base:) LEWIS TEMPLE/BLACKSMITH/INVENTOR OF THE IRON TOGGLE HARPOON TIP/BORN IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, IN 1800, LEWIS TEMPLE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A BLACKSMITH ON THE NEW BEDFORD WATERFRONT BY 1836./TEMPLE MANUFACTURED HIS FIRST TOGGLE-IRON IN 1848, ITS FASTENING POWER REVOLUTIONIZED THE CATCHING OF WHALES. THE INVENTION WAS NEVER/PATENTED, THEREFORE HIS ONLY ROYALTY WAS THE NAME THAT CLUNG TO IT./HE DIED IN NEW BEDFORD IN 1854, MILLIONS WERE MADE IN THE WHALING/INDUSTRY BECAUSE OF TEMPLE'S TOGGLE AFTER BUSINESS DEBTS WERE/CLEARED, THERE WAS NO LEGACY LEFT FOR HIS FAMILY (On plaque on back of base:) SCULPTOR/JIM TOATLEY/1941-1986/ERECTED/JULY 5, 1987 unsigned
    Description: 
    A bronze portrait of Lewis Temple wearing his blacksmith's apron and examining a harpoon fitted with the iron toggle tip that he invented. The sculpture stands atop a square granite base which is adorned on the front with an iron toggle tip.
    Subject: 
    Portrait male -- Temple, Lewis -- Full length
    Object -- Tool -- Harpoon
    Occupation -- Craft -- Smithing
    Occupation -- Science -- Inventor
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    City of New Bedford, New Bedford Free Public Library, 613 Pleasant Street, On left side of entrance, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997.
    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 MA000684
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