Abraham Lincoln
Randolph Rogers,
1871
* Statue of Abraham Lincoln
* bigseated person,
chair,
quill, book,
eagles,
federal and city seals
* Moved in January 2002 from the middle of Kelly Drive to the North side.
* inscription:
front:
To Abraham Lincoln from a grateful people
left:
With malice towards none, with charity towards all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in
back:
Let us here highly resolve that the government of the people. by the people,
and for the people shall not perish from this earth
right:
I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the states in
rebellion are and hence forth shall be free
* Kelly Drive and Sedgely Drive.
* 39.969550,-75.184500 [map][nearby]
* On the Kelly Drive tour
* Exhibits: Moved
* See also:
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Abraham Lincoln page
