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Artist/Creator (1)	Ball, Thomas, 1819-1911
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist, sculptor
Artist/Creator (2)	Babcock, O. E.
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (2).Role	architect
Artist/Creator (3)	Royal Foundry
Artist/Creator (3).Nationality	German
Artist/Creator (3).Role	foundry
Title/Caption	Emancipation Monument
Variant Title/Caption	Lincoln Emancipation; Freedom's Memorial
Date of Work	Modeled 1874. Cast 1875. Dedicated April 14, 1876.
Inscription	[On side of sculpture, near base:] THOMAS BALL Sc. 1874 [On back of sculpture near base:] FERD. MILLER jun./FUDIT/MUCHEN 1875 [Bronze plaque on front of base:] FREEDOM'S MEMORIAL / IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED / BY THE WASHINGTON SANITARY COMMISSION / OF SAINT LOUIS MO. / WITH FUNDS CONTRIBUTED SOLELY BY / EMANCIPATED CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES / DECLARED FREE BY HIS PROCLAMATION / JANUARY 1ST A.D. 1863. / THE FIRST CONTRIBUTION OF FIVE DOLLARS WAS MADE / BY CHARLOTTE SCOTT A FREED WOMAN OF VIRGINIA / BEING HER FIRST EARNINGS IN FREEDOM / AND CONSECRATED / BY HER SUGGESTION AND REQUEST / ON THE DAY SHE HEARD OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S DEATH / TO BUILD A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY [On bronze plaque on back of base:] AND UPON THIS ACT / SINCERELY BELIEVED TO BE AN ACT OF JUSTICE / WARRANTED BY THIS CONSTITUTION / UPON MILITARY NECESSITY / I INVOKE / THE CONSIDERATE JUDGEMENT OF MANKIND / AND / THE GRACIOUS FAVOR OF ALL MIGHTY GOD / A. LINCOLN EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION JANY.1.1863 / WESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION / JAMES E. YEATMAN PRESIDENT. / C.S. CREELEY TREAS: / GEO. PARTRIDGE. DR. J. B. JOHNSON. / WMC. ELIOT
Notes	Located Lincoln Park, East Capitol and 11th Streets, N.E., Washington, District of Columbia [For information on this sculpture see Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Art Inventories Catalogue entry for this sculpture: http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=130H6691B613R.34505andprofile=ariallandsource=~!siartinventoriesandview=subscriptionsummaryanduri=full=3100001~!15809~!167andri=1andaspect=Keywordandmenu=searchandipp=20andspp=20andstaffonly=andterm=ball+thomasandindex=.AWanduindex=andaspect=Keywordandmenu=searchandri=1
Technique/Process	sculpture, metalworking, casting
Materials/Medium	Figure sculpture: bronze. Base: granite with bronze plaques
Dimensions	Figure group: approx. 9 x 6 x 4 ft. Base: approx. 9 x 12 x 10 ft.
Century	19th Century
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Lincoln Park. Washington, D.C. (United States)
Location.Current Repository	United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Subject	Sculpture, American Sculpture, 19th Century Figures, male Portraits, male Presidents African Americans (representations)
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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