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Capital Edifice to Be Finished in Fall<br /><br />Washington, D.C., Dec. 21 [Special] - Originally scheduled to be completed tomorrow, the 3 million dollar Thomas Jefferson memorial on the east bank of the tidal basin here will not be finished until next September, architectural experts said today.<br /><br />Delay in construction was ascribed to two strikes and to the fact that the work of filling in the seawall along the basin has been retarded because the contractor also is working on Washington airport. <br /><br />Because the airport is considered a vital link in the nation’s military preparations, it was decided that the labor and equipment needed on the Jefferson memorial would be better utilized on the airport. <br /><br />Final Appearance Evident<br /><br />The memorial, however, is taking on its final lines, as columns are put into place and the dome completed. The building will be of pantheon design. Plans for it were prepared by the late John Pope, who also prepared plans for the Mellon Art gallery which is under construction a short distance away, on Constitution avenue. <br /><br />The architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins of New York City, has been supervising construction of the two buildings since the death of Pope in September, 1937.<br /><br />Surrounded by a peristyle of Ionic columns, the memorial contains a central circular room approximately 80 feet in diameter, with a dome ceiling. Made of limestone, the ceiling is entirely self-supporting, and is not connected with the outside section of the dome. The outer dome is made of structural steel encased in concrete with marble on top.<br /><br />Three Work on Statue<br /><br />Three artists have been working on models for the statue which will occupy the center of the large marble lined room in the interior of the memorial. The statue will be a heroic figure of Jefferson, on a great pedestal. The building will be a companion edifice to the Lincoln memorial, and will complete the five point design plan for the central Washington area, including the capitol, the Washington monument, the White House, and the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.<br /><br />In the frieze of the main entabulature encircling the room, space will be found for inscriptions from Jefferson’s writings. On the four diagonal points there will be large panels, which will be well situated for other inscriptions or bas-reliefs of the events during Jefferson’s lifetime. A symbolic sculpture group will be placed in the center of the tympanum of the north portico. <br /><br />One of the objections to construction of the memorial was that nearly 125 Japanese cherry trees had to be moved or cut down. Altho the memorial will be completed next fall, it is expected the dedication of the statue of Jefferson will not be held until 1943, when it will be arranged to coincide with the bicentennial.
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Strikes Delay U.S. Memorial to Jefferson
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<em>Chicago Daily Tribune</em>
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1/1/1941
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1920-1949
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In June 1939, carpenters and laborers working on construction projects throughout Washington went on strike, including many building the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/31">Jefferson Memorial</a>. Work on the Memorial and other public projects stopped for nearly 3 weeks due to the strikes. At the end of the strike, workers had successfully bargained for higher wages.
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Some Interesting Facts about the Men Whose Pictures are Given<br /><br />Theodore V. Ryder, one of the carpenters who has been employed on the work for the last three years, served his apprenticeship under Mr. McLaughlin, who is his brother-in-law. The elevator conductor is Edward Wayson, who was working under McLaughlin as a carpenter when he was building the Ascension Church. He accompanied the superintendent to the monument and followed his trade there until the erection of the elevator, when he was made conductor. It is estimated that he has made between thirty and forty thousand trips up and down the elevator, having taken up all the 9,612 stones and all the woodwork used in the erection of the obelisk and its interior furnishings. <br /><br />As the men would descend every night, the only colored man employed on the summit, named Lewis O’Brien, used to start up the old camp meeting songs such as “Beneath the Shadows of the Rock,” &., and, when the men joined in the chorus, the structure would ring with their stentorian voices. Lewis, although born in North Carolina before the war, has never felt the bonds of slavery. His grandmother was set free by her master, a Mr. John Jackson, for having rescued one of his children one night from a burning building. Lewis went to Baltimore and engaged himself as a laborer. While there he taught himself to read and write by attending a night school now and then and by picking up scraps of learning from his fellow workmen. He has been working on the monument since its construction was recommenced, and has mixed all of the cement used. His black face fairly beamed with joy and pride yesterday when he was called to spread the cement under the cap-stone. The colored people among whom he lived look up to him with great respect for having been connected with a work of such great importance. He has been made the butt of all the jokes of the boys at the top of the monument.<br /><br />“Old Corporal,” as Joseph Engelfinger is called, has only been working on the obelisk for a short time as a laborer. He got his sobriquet from having been in the army sixteen years. He entered during the war, and served in Capt. Davis’ regiment on the frontier. He used to carry the mails from one post to another, and was always in the saddle. Although he was in danger of being pierced with an arrow shot by some treacherous Indian, yet he used to mount his horse and start off with as much coolness as he would eat his breakfast. <br /><br />Charles Cumberland has been engaged as a skilled laborer ever since the setting of the stones began. William Branson, who was formerly as sailor in the United States Navy, was formerly employed upon the ground, but at the commencement of the roof-building he was called up higher and engaged upon the top as a laborer.<br /><br />All the rigging on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was done by James Hogan, who, coming to the Monument five years ago as a skilled laborer setting stones, succeeded Bute, the rigger, when the latter resigned. He is an old sailor, and has been at sea nearly all his life. <br /><br />Another of the skilled laborers, named James Wells, who has been upon the work since its commencement, made himself notable by being the first man to be thrown over the side of the structure. In swinging one of the cranes round a guy attached to it struck him, and over he tumbled, fortunately being caught by the net. All the men, including Mr. McLaughlin himself have at different and several times tumbled into the net, or been knocked into it accidentally.<br /><br />One of the laborers, John Flynn, was standing on the wall, which was at that time about six feet about the netting, working with a guy rope, when he slipped and fell over the side. He was naturally considerably scared, but clung on to the guy rope and was caught by the net, from which he climbed hand over hand to the platform again. The strength of the netting is something extraordinary. At one time a wooden straight line, which Mr. McLaughlin prized highly, was lying in it, when a thunder storm, accompanied by a strong gale of wind, arose, and the straight line threatened to be blown over, when it would have been smashed irrevocably. Knowing how the line was pried by their superintendent, all of the thirteen men got into the net together and made the line fast.<br /><br />One of the first men engaged by McLaughlin as a skilled laborer was James E. Talbot, and with the exception of a few months he has been constantly employed there since. Three or four months ago John Mahoney, an Irishman, was taken on to assist the machinist Joseph Williams, who broke his arm by tumbling down from one of the landings to that below, a distance of about ten feet. <br /><br />Sam Maston, a carpenter, engaged three or four months ago, was formerly employed as a ship carpenter at the navy yard. Joseph Faunce used to help his father, a fisherman, until he became a laborer upon the monument. George Knightsey and James Flynn helped the masons to set every stone in the roof, while James Chauncey, who has been one of the stonecutters since the work started, helped to cut the roof stones and has been employed on the top since the setting of the roof began, doing such little trimmings as were necessary. He lives in Alexandria, going and returning every day.<br /><br />All the masonry has been done by Dennis O’Leary and Thomas Purcell. The latter is not now employed on the monument. After reaching the 500 foot level there was only room for one mason, and as O’Lear was the younger man he was kept on to finish the work, while Purcell was sent below and worked as a stonecutter.<br /><br />The inside of the monument on the ground floor has been in the charge of James B. Evans, who has been employed there nearly seven years. While the new foundation was being put under the structure the greater part of the material was received by him. When the stone setting began the care of landing the stones and putting them on the elevator devolved upon him. The last year he has been assisted by Thomas Riley, who has traveled over nearly the whole of the United States as a carpenter, employed in making railroad bridges, &c. <br /><br />A Lynchburg man is in charge of the engine which runs the elevator. His name is John E. McKenna, and he took the place about two years ago, succeeding F. M. Dykes, who now runs the elevator in the Patent Office.<br /><br />The illustration within the portraits show the monument entrance and the elevator ascending. The superintendent is indicating the line which marks the top of the Capitol dome.
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Builders of the Monument
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<em>The Washington Post</em>
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12/7/1884
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1860-1889
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The <em>Washington Post</em> published an article highlighting the contributions of laborers who built the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>. The article included an illustration of the individuals profiled and revealed their occupational backgrounds. Some worked on ships and others on railroads before joining the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/281">Monument's construction crews</a>. One of the workers highlighted was African American concrete mixer Lewis O'Brien. The images in the center of this illustration represent the entrance to the monument (left), and Superintendent P. H. McLaughlin testing the elevator with some workmen (right).
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Daniel
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French
Birth Date
4/20/1850
Birthplace
Exeter, New Hampshire
Death Date
10/7/1931
Occupation
Artist
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Daniel Chester French was born in Essex, New Hampshire. French’s father, Henry Flagg French, was a lawyer, judge, and federal official. In 1867, when French was 17, the family moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where they were neighbors with influential artists and authors, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. Although he had little formal training as a young man, French was able to study with a number of accomplished artists, both in the United States and in Europe. <br /><br />French’s first major commission was a statue for the city of Concord to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The statue, titled 'Minute Man,' was well received, and became so famous that it was featured on war bonds during World War I. After living for two years in Italy, French moved to Washington, DC in 1876 and set up a studio near the Capitol. In 1890, he returned to Europe again to study with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/146">Augustus Saint-Gaudens</a> in Paris. On his return, he and his wife, Mary Adams French, moved to New York City, where he lived for the rest of his life. <br /><br />In 1914, French was selected by the Lincoln Memorial Committee to create the sculpture of Lincoln for a memorial on the National Mall. French resigned as chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, which would be involved in reviewing any design choices for the monument, in order to accept the commission.<br /><br />Mary and Daniel French purchased a summer house in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1896. Daniel died there in 1931 at the age of 81.
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Daniel Chester French
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004671901/">View original.</a>
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French was a sculptor whose best-known work in Washington, DC, is the statue of President Abraham Lincoln inside the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial.</a> He also sculpted the statue of Victory which tops the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/129">First Division Monument </a>in President’s Park. From 1910-1915, French served as one of the first members of the US Commission for Fine Arts, which reviews new construction in Washington for design and aesthetics. This commission carried on the work of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/179">Senate Park Commission</a> who designed the Mall. One of French’s good friends and mentor, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/146">Augustus Saint-Gaudens,</a> was a member of that Commission.
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Daniel Chester French
arts & culture
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DC History
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19300212
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US Army Blimp Lands at Lincoln Memorial
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02/12/1930
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1920-1949
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In 1930, the US Army landed an open gondola blimp at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>, on a special trip to honor Lincoln's Birthday. Upon landing, the blimp's pilots placed a wreath at the Memorial. US Army blimps occasionally flew over Washington during practices flights from Langley Field in Virginia, but blimps rarely landed on the Mall.
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/thc1995001697/pp/">View Original</a>.
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military history
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Negative
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8 in x 10 in
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Turning the Ground Near the Lincoln Memorial
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Theodor Horydczak (photographer)
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/thc1995009388/pp/">View original</a>.
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1920
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1920-1949
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<p>In the 1920s, the land on the western end of the Mall was transformed from a field into the planned landscape surrounding the newly-built <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>, designed by architect James Greenleaf. In this photo, a two-person team tills the land near the Memorial with a horse-drawn tractor to prepare the grounds for planting.</p>
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environment
everyday life
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Photograph
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Maintaining the Monuments
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The National Park Service employs many special maintenance teams to keep the Mall beautiful. <span><span>Their role is to preserve the monuments and maintain the landscapes. Landscapers care for the grounds and remove 3-4 tons of trash daily.</span></span> A special crew preserves the monuments and memorials. In this photo one such worker cleans the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a>.
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National Park Service Internal Archive
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2000-present
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7/13/2012
design & monuments
everyday life
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A chisel with the name A. LaManna engraved on it.
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Anthony LaManna's chisel
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1890-1919
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Anthony LaManna was a stone cutter who immigrated from Italy to the US through Ellis Island in 1904. He worked on the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/33">Lincoln Memorial</a> in the late 1910s and early 1920s carving the words of the Gettysburg Address on the south interior wall. This chisel, along with other tools he used while carving that inscription, are now on display in the lower level of the memorial. Six years after he finished working on the Lincoln Memorial, LaManna passed the bar exam and spent the rest of his life working as a lawyer.
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National Park Service. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nama/blogs/Learning-from-Collections-From-Stone-Carver-to-Lawyer.htm">View original</a>.
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Black and White Photographis Print
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8 x 10
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Allosaurus Arrives on the Mall
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In April 1987 a one-ton fiberglass Allosaurus sculpture was moved into the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/55">National Museum of Natural History</a>. <span> A crowd formed on the Mall at the steps of the museum to watch the dinosaur lifted into the building with a winch. </span>The 20-foot-long model was featured in the "Dinosaurs, Past and Present," a temporary exhibit displaying artistic representations of dinosaurs constructed in the 1800 and 1900s. After three months, the Allosaurus and other works traveled to museums across North America.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives. <a href="http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_5712?back=%2Fsearch%2Fsia_search_collections%2Fdinosaur">View Original</a>.
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04/28/1987 (Allosaurus Arrival)
06/04/1987 ( "Dinosaurs, Past and Present" Opens)
08/31/1987 ( "Dinosaurs, Past and Present" Closes)
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1980-1999
design & monuments
everyday life
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Openings and Dedications
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19750711
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Spitfire Airplane Arrives at the Air and Space Museum
Description
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Before the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/269">National Air and Space Museum</a> opened in July 1975, objects like this WWII-era "Spitfire" airplane arrived. To get the plane inside the museum, its wings were temporarily removed and it was led through the museum's west end windows. These windows were designed to open in such a way that <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/484">large objects, such as aircraft and missiles</a>, could easily move in and out of the museum.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives. <a href="http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_10377?back=%2Fsearch%2Fsia_search_collections%2Fair%2520and%2520space%2520windows">View original</a>.
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07/11/1975
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1950-1979
design & monuments
everyday life
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Openings and Dedications
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19610000
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Steam Locomotive Installation at the National Museum of American History
Description
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The American Locomotive Company of Richmond, Virginia built this 280-ton passenger stream train in 1926 which arrived at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/48">National Museum of American History</a>) to go on permanent display in the Railroad Hall. The retired rail car entered the museum during the original construction, on custom-built train tracks that led directly into the building. Once inside, the exterior museum walls could be completed.
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<a class="normalBlackFont1">Smithsonian Institution Archives. </a><a href="http://siris-sihistory.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=139T174410182.1308&profile=sicall&source=~!sichronology&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!7539~!2&ri=1&aspect=alpha&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Railroad+Hall+(NMHT)&index=PSUBJ&uindex=&aspect=alpha&menu=search&ri=1">View original</a>
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American Locomotive Company
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1961
design & monuments
everyday life