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Title: Statues of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln Memorial
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents in art Presidents Marble sculpture, American Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Large-scale sculpture
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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by telling you that I spend asmuch time as possible here. Icome here before 7 in the morn-ing, and I do not leave until5. This is my job—watching thestatue—and I love it just asany man loves his job. Tolerant Like Abe Like Lincoln, he is tolerant, eventhough tourists pencil their nameson the gleaming walls. Every night I have themwashed off. The people reallydont mean any harm. They justdont think about what theyredoing. I am very careful that everyname is erased, for I find thatwhen one person sees a namewritten on the wall, he immedi-ately writes his own name aboveit. Unimportant, He Says When he learned that I wasgoing to use his name in this story,Clapham was a little worried, andhe said: I wish you wouldnt. Afterall, I am a very unimportantperson. This (and he indicatedwith a gesture all that heguarded) is important, but I amonly a small man with a job todo. I think Clapham forgot that theman of marble had love, compassion and understanding for millions of smaller men than he.
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this color guard of sailors .anJ ™nn ™™* of 3,000 Americans pass through this shrine daily, paying^^^;^^^^^^%^^m Lowe,, ca„ed The First American. f^ X Jkilbitt: )f Fine Artt LIFE Referred toS RECO AUG 24 1937 (CIMJ President^- / The Lincoln Ins. Co.Fort ^ayne, Ind. ion of Fine Sigmuna Ojserkis, Collector vvorks of Art—Bought Sola ana Exhibited ijoartlwalik JN atiomal Arcade JcraiMimgAtlantic City, New Jersey Aug. 16th. OFFICE OF WES1DEIT Dear Sir:- At the suggestion of a valuable patron ofyour good company I am enclosing a foto of a statue whichwe are offering in the liquidation of a valuable art coollec-tion which he fought you would be interested in.The measurements will be found on the reverse side .The artistone oi the most noted in America,D 0 French,recently died.Only^three casts were made of this piece,one is in Europe,one in the south ana bne one we nave, (iornam tne people cast anotner ior less tnan#I550. Ve can offer this in our closing out sale forcrating and expr

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