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Photographer: Michael Stroud
Taken: September 27, 2000
Caption: Lady Columbia ... For all the Mothers
Additional Description: At the top of the staircase stands a statue of Lady Columbia, holding a laurel branch. She is reported to represent all grieving mothers. The inscription below the statue, taken from Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, reads: “The Solemn Pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.”
Submitted: January 4, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p13056
File Size: 0.112 Megabytes

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