Record 314/784 Catalog Record The Postcard Collection Exhibit Page Home Search Image 2 of 2 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.

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