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*Vertical File in Salem Collection - '''Choate, Joseph''' | |||
*[http://innopac.noblenet.org/search/X?search=city+documents&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D City Documents 1923] p.225-235. | *[http://innopac.noblenet.org/search/X?search=city+documents&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D City Documents 1923] p.225-235. | ||
*[http://innopac.noblenet.org/search?/Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D/Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D&search=visitor%27s+guide+to+salem&SUBKEY=visitor%27s%20guide%20to%20salem/1%2C9%2C9%2CB/frameset&FF=Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C Visitor's Guide to Salem] Essex Institute, 1953 ed., p.173 | *[http://innopac.noblenet.org/search?/Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D/Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D&search=visitor%27s+guide+to+salem&SUBKEY=visitor%27s%20guide%20to%20salem/1%2C9%2C9%2CB/frameset&FF=Xvisitor%27s+guide+to+salem&searchscope=24&m=&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C Visitor's Guide to Salem] Essex Institute, 1953 ed., p.173 | ||
*"Statue Unveiling." ''Salem Evening News'', Oct.20, 1923. | *"Statue Unveiling." ''Salem Evening News'', Oct.20, 1923. | ||
*[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!299862~!0#focus Choate Monument] Smithsonian Institute Catalog. | *[http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!299862~!0#focus Choate Monument] Smithsonian Institute Online Catalog. | ||
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Revision as of 12:49, 11 August 2010
Statue located at corner of Essex and Boston Streets or "Tully Square." Unveiled on Oct. 20, 1923. This fine granite and bronze memorial was created in honor of one of Salem's most distinguished sons, the late Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate(1832-1917), a distinguished lawyer, and U.S. ambassador to England. The memorial was a gift from Henry Clay Frick. The bronze figure of a seated woman is meant to represent "Liberty" is holding up a laurel wreath in her raised right hand. In her left, she holds a shield adorned with an eagle and thirteen stars. The sculpture rests on a block of granite adorned on the front with a circular relief of the head of Joseph H. Choate. The sculptor was J. Massey Rhind.
See Also
- Vertical File in Salem Collection - Choate, Joseph
- City Documents 1923 p.225-235.
- Visitor's Guide to Salem Essex Institute, 1953 ed., p.173
- "Statue Unveiling." Salem Evening News, Oct.20, 1923.
- Choate Monument Smithsonian Institute Online Catalog.
