Tuesday, July 10, 2007

On This Day, In This City

"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." Abraham Lincoln, July 10, 1858, Chicago, Illinois.

Scultpure: The Seated Lincoln, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Grant Park, Chicago. Other work featured on this blog by the same sculptor can be found here.

4 comments:

  1. I have not seen this sculpture of my cousin, President Lincoln. I like it and his squared-off shoes.

    Abraham Lincoln
    Brookville Daily Photo

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  2. Oh, I did not know Lincoln had been sitting all this time up in Chicago!

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  3. nice photo. I do believe, as I've gotten older, I really started to enjoy American history.

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  4. I have not noticed this down there before....obviously wasn't looking!

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