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Photographer: Underwood and Underwood (via the Internet Archive)
Taken: June 9, 1922
Caption: Princeton Battle Monument
Additional Description: McMonnie's Monument, Commemorating the Battle of Princeton, dedicated by the President of the United States, Warren G. Harding, at Princeton. N. J., On June 9, 1922.

The central figure of the monument is General Washington: General Mercer, who was killed in the battle, lying at his feet. The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant posed for Mercer: Dr. Allen Marquard for the soldier who is rushing forward; and Charles Dana Gibson, the illustrator, for the figure of the soldier who is supporting the fallen general.

Copyright by Underwood &. Underwood

This photo of the monument appeared in The Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. LVI, No. 8, August 1922.
Submitted: February 23, 2019, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p465003
File Size: 1.701 Megabytes

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