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Record 314/784
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Collection Postcard Collection
Description Color Postcard, "Framingham, Mass. Buckminster Square and Soldier's Monument"
Pub by the Leighton & Valentine Co, New York City

This minuteman statue was dedicated June 17, 1905. The figure portrayed is a blacksmith (the minuteman statue in Concord depicts a farmer). Sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson died during the work and his wife, Alice, finished it. In photo, the statue faces south; later it was turned to face concord. The town water tower on Normal Hill is in background of photo.
Year Range from 1907
Year range to 1925
Object ID 2002.701.165
Object Name Postcard
Recfrom Haranas, Ellen
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Last modified on: October 26, 2011