Collection Information
Size: 8 Pages
Summary: Speech by Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner questioning the Senate's selection of sculptor Vinnie Ream to create a commissioned sculpture of Abraham Lincoln to be placed in the Capitol Building.
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Politician
Size: 8 Pages
Summary: Speech by Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner questioning the Senate's selection of sculptor Vinnie Ream to create a commissioned sculpture of Abraham Lincoln to be placed in the Capitol Building.
Donated by Paul L. Grigaut, July 5, 1954.
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Art in the National Capitol : speech in the Senate of the United States, July 17, 1866, 1866. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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