• Anne Whitney created two public statues of Samuel Adams. One, made in 1876, resides in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the US Capitol, Washington...
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    asterisk (*) were included in the original executive order. Ansel Adams Samuel Adams John Adams* Muhammad Ali Luis Walter Alvarez Susan B. Anthony* Hannah Arendt...
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    Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the...
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    Statuary Hall Collection holds statues donated by each of the United States, portraying notable persons in the histories of the respective states. Displayed...
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    Anne Whitney (category Artists of the Boston Public Library)
    monuments. Two statues of Samuel Adams were made by Whitney and are located in Washington, D.C.'s National Statuary Hall Collection and in front of Faneuil Hall...
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    2017. To the rear of 60 State facing Congress Street, adjacent to the Faneuil Hall building and statue of Samuel Adams sits a Samuel Adams Beer Tap room on...
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  • 1876 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
    Statue of Edward Dickinson Baker Anne Whitney - Statue of Samuel Adams Unknown - Confederate Monument of Bowling Green Unknown - Dauphin County Veteran's...
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  • Adams' cousin Samuel Adams is one of the main colonists opposed to the Intolerable Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. He is one of the executive...
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    Dock Square (category History of Boston)
    view of Anne Whitney's statue of Samuel Adams Dock Square in 1957 Faneuil Hall, built 1742 Old Feather Store (1680–1860) Anne Whitney, sculptor of Sam...
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    among the Massachusetts colonial elite. Adams was initially less well known than his older cousin Samuel Adams, but his influence emerged from his work...
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    the state represented by each statue. Some statues have been replaced at the request of the states over time. Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ethan Allen, Vermont...
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    donating the statue of his ancestor, Samuel J. Bridge added memorial stones over John Bridge's burial place on July 4, 1876. The statue was dedicated...
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    December 1598, Adams changed ships to the Liefde (originally named Erasmus and adorned with a wooden carving of Erasmus on her stern). The statue was preserved...
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    Commons has media related to Samuel Wilson. Uncle Sam Memorial Statue, Arlington, Massachusetts Uncle Sam statue detail Samuel Wilson detail Matthews, Albert...
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    Faneuil Hall (category Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts)
    was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain. It is now part of Boston National...
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    Washington is a large bronze sculpture of George Washington by John Quincy Adams Ward, installed on the front steps of Federal Hall National Memorial on Wall...
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  • the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Various American Revolutionary figures are protagonists in episodes, such as Samuel Adams, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin...
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    decided to erect a statue of the Patriot and statesman Samuel Adams at this spot, and the area was accordingly given the name Adams Square that same year...
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    Robert Treat Paine (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    daughter of Rev. Samuel Treat, whose father Maj. Robert Treat was one of the principal founders of Newark, New Jersey, and later a governor of Connecticut...
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    States Capitol is composed of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. Limited to two statues per state, the collection...
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    consisted of 56 delegates, including George Washington of Virginia; John Adams and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts; John Jay of New York; John Dickinson of Pennsylvania;...
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    As with the previous election, Adams swept the city and state. That ticket, according to the best of knowledge of Samuel Eliot Morison, was "the last ticket...
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    Paul Giamatti (category Alumni of the British American Drama Academy)
    Giamatti is the subject of the viral "Wax Paul Now" campaign, which pushes for the actor to get a Madame Tussauds wax statue in his likeness. The movement...
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  • John Adams-Acton (11 December 1830 – 28 October 1910) was a British sculptor. He was born at Acton Hill, Middlesex, the son of William Adams, a tailor...
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    1675 Deacon Samuel Chapin One Of The Founders Of Springfield No authentic portraits of Deacon Samuel Chapin were available for the statue's design. The...
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    Premier in 1976. A statue in honour of Adams is located in front of Government Headquarters at Bay Street, St. Michael. Adams is one of Barbados' National...
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    Francis Adams Jr. (May 27, 1835 – March 20, 1915) was an American author, historian, and railroad and park commissioner who served as the president of the...
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    Harvard president as inspiration. The statue's inscription‍—‌JOHN HARVARD  •   FOUNDER  • 1638‍—‌is the subject of an arch polemic traditionally recited...
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  • Francis Adams, Sr.; and Charles' two sons, noted historian and autobiographer Henry Adams and academician Brooks Adams. As of November 2023, eight of the...
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    2020, a bronze statue of British naval hero Vice Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson was a fixture of the Square on the west end. The statue in Bridgetown had...
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