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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 29, 2017
Caption: Italian Marble
Additional Description: Hugh Sisson, Baltimore's marble king, executed George Frederick's design for the Poe tomb. Its white veined marble was imported from Italy; the granite base was quarried in nearby Woodstock, north of Baltimore. Sisson's handiwork was marred by one mistake, not of his doing: Poe was born on January 19, not the 20th.

Hugh Sisson, Steam Marble Works…
Advertisement published in George W. Howard's Monumental City (1874)
Courtesy of Benjamin R. KrimmellClose-up of image on marker
Submitted: June 1, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p384388
File Size: 0.955 Megabytes

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