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Justice and History by Thomas Crawford is located above the Senate bronze doors on the Capitol's East Front. The restored original figures (placed above the Senate doors in 1863), may be seen in the Capitol terminal of the Senate subway. Sculptor Thomas Crawford (1814-1857) also created the Statue of Freedom atop the dome, the designs of bronze Senate and House doors, and the pediment sculpture Progress of Civilization over the east entrance to the Senate wing.”
Justice and History by Thomas Crawford is located above the Senate bronze doors on the Capitol's East Front Ben Franklin reading outside the Franklin Library in Franklin, MA
The "Circuit Rider“ by Anna Hyatt Huntington Young Abe Lincoln Bray Hall on the State University in Syracuse
The "Circuit Rider“ by Anna Hyatt Huntington Young Abe Lincoln Huntington Bethel Public Library Connecticut
The "Circuit Rider“ by Anna Hyatt Huntington Young Abe Lincoln Lincoln City, Oregon
Abraham Lincoln New Salem Historic Site, near Springfield, Ill Abraham Lincoln Washington D.C.
The "Circuit Rider“ by Anna Hyatt Huntington Young Abe Lincoln New Salem near Springfield, IL
James and Dolley Madison statue at Montpelier 4th President of the United States and First Lady
James Bradley statue – Covington, Statue of an African-American man who is representative of the Underground Railroad Movement in America in the mid-nineteenth cen- tury
John Harvard Harvard Law School Library
Monument Hendrik Conscience in Blankenberge 1912 Hugo de Groot (Grotius) in Delft, Markt, door F.L.Stracké, 1886
Bishop Anton Slomsek in Maribor, Slowenië Statue of William the Conqueror, holding Domesday Book on the West Front of Lichfield Cathedral
Saint Boniface (675-754) Patron Saint of Germany statue in Fulda, Germany Statue of Saint Boniface, first Archbishop of Mainz in the market place outside Mainz Cathedral
Ignatius van Loyola (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Laurens Janszoon Coster 1858 a purported inventor of a printing press from Haarlem
Statue of Archbishop Khachatour Kesaratsi in front of the Vank Cathedral, Isfahan, Iran. He established the first publishing house in Persia (Iran) and Middle East in 1636 and printed the first book in Persia: Saghmosaran – the Psalter in Armenian. The first Persian book in Persia was published 192 years later in 1830
Statue of Archbishop Khachatour Kesaratsi in front of the Vank Cathedral, Isfahan, Iran.
The Goethe Monument is an outdoor 1880 memorial to German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Fritz Schaper, located in Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany
The Goethe Monument in Berlin, Germany Allegory of Science
The Goethe Monument in Berlin, Germany Allegory of Science
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Monument in Leipzig, Germany
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Monument in Wien by Edmund von Hellmer (1850 - 1935)
Goethe (1749-1832) Monument in Wien by Edmund von Hellmer (1850 - 1935)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Monument in Wien by Edmund von Hellmer (1850 - 1935)
Goethe (1749-1832) Monument in Frankfurt am Main 1844 by Ludwig von Schwanthaler
The Goethe and Schiller statue in Weimar in front of the National Theater
The Goethe and Schiller statue in Weimar in front of the National Theater by Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel, 1857
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1837-1909) in London Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays, Stockholm
The monument to the brothers William and Jacob Grimm, the Brothers Grimm, in Kassel court
The monument to the brothers William and Jacob Grimm, the Brothers Grimm, detail
The monument to the brothers William and Jacob Grimm, the Brothers Grimm, in Hanau
