List of the tallest statues in the United States
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This list of the tallest statues in the United States ranks free-standing statues based on their height from base to top.
Contents
Statues over 12.2 m (40 ft)
Statue | Height | Image | Sculptor | Completed | Location | Coordinates | Materials | Notes | |
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Statue of Liberty Liberty Enlightening the World |
46 | 151 | Frédéric Bartholdi | 1886 | Liberty Island, New York Harbor | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | cast copper on metal armature |
Stands upon a 47 m (154 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 93 m (305 ft)[1] The interior framework was designed by Gustave Eiffel. |
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Pegasus and Dragon | 33.5 | 110 | 2014 | Gulfstream Park Racetrack and Casino, Hallandale Beach, Florida |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Pegasus is 33.4 m (110 ft) in height. The dragon is 15.2 m (50 ft) in height |
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Our Lady of the Rockies | 27 | 88.6 | Laurien Eugene Riehl (designer) | 1985 | Butte, Montana | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete base; stainless steel statue | Stands upon a 1.5 m (5 ft) base Total monument height: 28.5 m (93.6 ft)[2] |
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Golden Driller[3] | 23 | 75 | 1953 | Tulsa Expo Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | cast concrete and plaster | |||
Brachiosaurus Mother and Baby | 21.34 | 70 | Gary Staab | 2009 | Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass | ||
United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) |
20.7 | 68 | 75px | Felix de Weldon | 1954 | Arlington Ridge Park, Arlington, Virginia |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze |
Stands upon a 3 m (10 ft) base. Total monument height: 23.7 m (78 ft)[4] With Washington, D.C. in the distance. |
Giraffe[5] | 20.6 | 67.6 | Bob Cassilly[6] | 1997 | Dallas Zoo, Dallas, Texas |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze and plexiglass | ||
A Tribute to Courage (Sam Houston statue) |
20.5 | 67 | David Adickes | 1994 | Huntsville, Texas | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | cast concrete | Stands upon a 3 m (10 ft) pedestal[7] | |
Christ of the Ozarks[8] | 20 | 65.5 | Emmet Sullivan | 1966 | Magnetic Mountain, Eureka Springs, Arkansas |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | cast concrete | ||
Lucy the Elephant | 19.7 | 65 | James V. Lafferty, designer | 1881 | Margate City, New Jersey | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | wood, tin sheeting | Similar novelty buildings built at Coney Island, New York and Cape May, New Jersey do not survive. NRHP listed. |
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Brontosaurus "Dinny the Dinosaur" |
19.7 | 65 | 75px | Claude K. Bell | 1978 | Dinosaur Delights, Cabazon, California |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete over a steel frame |
The novelty building is 45.7 m (150 ft) in length. The roadside attraction also features a 13.7 m (45 ft) Tyrannosaurus Rex statue.[9] |
Indian of Skowhegan | 18.9 | 62 | 75px | Bernard Langlais | 1969 | Skowhegan, Maine | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | wood, concrete base | Created for the 150th anniversary of Maine statehood Stands upon a 6.1 m (20 ft) base Total monument height: 25 m (82 ft)[10] |
Vulcan | 17.1 | 56 | Giuseppe Moretti | 1904 | Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | cast iron |
Created for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Stands upon a 38.4 m (126 ft) tower. Total monument height: 55.5 m (182 ft)[11] |
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Hiawatha | 15.8 | 52 | Gordon Displays | 1964 | Hiawatha Park, Ironwood, Michigan |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass | Stands upon a 0.8 m (2.5 ft) base Total monument height: 16.6 m (54.5 ft)[12] |
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Lux Mundi Light of the World |
15.8 | 52 | Tom Tsuchiya | 2012 | Solid Rock Church, Monroe, Ohio |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | polymer, composite, steel | ||
Jolly Green Giant | 15.2 | 50 | Creative Displays F.A.S.T. Corp. |
1979 | Blue Earth, Minnesota | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass | Stands upon a 1.7 m (5.5 ft) base Total monument height: 16.9 m (55.5 ft)[13] |
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Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox | 15 | 49.2 | 75px | Ward Berg | Bunyan 1961 Babe 1950 |
Trees of Mystery, Klamath, California |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | wood, chicken wire, stucco | Replaced a 1946 Bunyan statue by Ray & William Thompson.[14] Based on a model by Ann Cooper.[15] |
Black Hawk Statue The Eternal Indian |
14.6 | 48 | Lorado Taft | 1911 | Lowden State Park, near Oregon, Illinois |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete | ||
Atlas | 13.7 | 45 | Lee Lawrie | 1937 | Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze, granite base |
Stands upon a 2.7 m (9 ft) base. Total monument height: 16.4 m (54 ft) |
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The Keeper of the Plains | 13.4 | 44 | Blackbear Bosin | 1974 | Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Cor-Ten steel | Stands upon a 9.1 m (30 ft) rock promontory | |
Rocket Thrower | 12.95 | 42.5 | 75px | Donald De Lue | 1964 | Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Created for the 1964 New York World's Fair[16] |
Athena Parthenos Athena of the Parthenon |
12.8 | 42 | Alan LeQuire | 1990 | Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | composite of gypsum cement and fiberglass | Tallest indoor statue in United States. |
Statues between 6.1 and 12.2 m (20 and 40 ft)
Statue | Height | Image | Sculptor | Completed | Location | Coordinates | Materials | Notes | |
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m | ft | ||||||||
Big Freeport Indian Chief Passamaquoddy |
12.2 | 40 | Rodman Shutt | 1969 | Conundrum Wine Bistro, 313 Yarmouth Road, Freeport, Maine |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass | Stands upon a 2.7 m (9 ft) base Total monument height: 14.9 m (49 ft)[17] Nickname: "BFI" |
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Victory "Miss Indiana" |
11.58 | 38 | George Brewster | 1893 | Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Victory stands atop a 75 m (246 ft) tower. Total monument height: 86.56 m (284 ft)[18] Restored in 2011[19] |
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Vision of Peace Indian God of Peace |
11.58 | 38 | Carl Milles | 1936 | City Hall, St. Paul, Minnesota |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | Mexican onyx | ||
William Penn | 11.3 | 37 | 75px | Alexander Milne Calder | 1894 | City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands atop a 155.75 m (511 ft) tower designed by John McArthur, Jr.. |
Apatosaurus "Wall Drug Dinosaur" |
11.3 | 37 | 75px | Emmet Sullivan | 1968 | Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete over an iron frame | The dinosaur statue is 24.4 m (80 ft) in length. |
Portlandia | 11.25 | 36.9 | 75px | Raymond Kaskey | 1985 | The Portland Building, Portland, Oregon |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands atop the entrance pavilion to The Portland Building. |
National Monument to the Forefathers Central figure: Faith |
11 | 36 | Faith: William Rimmer & [John D.?] Perry | 1907 | Pilgrim Memorial State Park, Plymouth, Massachusetts |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | solid granite | Faith stands upon a 13.7 m (45 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 24.7 m (81 ft)[20] Other figures: Alexander Doyle, Carl Conrads & James H. Mahoney. Architect: Joseph Edward Billings |
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Iron Man | 11 | 36 | Jack E. Anderson | 1987 | Minnesota Discovery Center, Chisholm, Minnesota |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | iron ore | Stands upon a 14 m (45 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 25 m (81 ft)[21] |
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Paul Bunyan | 10.1 | 33 | Dean Krotzer | 1985 | Paul Bunyan Historical Museum, Akeley, Minnesota |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass | Visitors can sit in Bunyan's right hand.[22] | |
David (inspired by Michelangelo) | 10 | 32.8 | 75px | Serkan Özkaya | 2011 | 21c Museum Hotel, 700 W. Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky |
fiberglass | Stands upon a 5 m (16.4 ft) pedestal[23] Total monument height: 15 m (49.2 ft) |
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Ceres | 9.4 | 31 | John Storrs | 1930 | Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago, Illinois |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | aluminum | Stands atop a 184 m (605 ft) office building. | |
Paul Bunyan | 9.4 | 31 | J. Norman Martin | 1959 | Bass Park, Bangor, Maine |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | fiberglass over a steel frame | Stands upon a 2.1 m (6.7 ft) base Total monument height: 11.5 m (37.7 ft)[24] |
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Paul Bunyan | 9.4 | 31 | Victor R. Nelson | 1959 | Portland, Oregon | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete over a steel frame | Created for the 1959 Oregon Centennial Exposition NRHP listed.[25] |
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Bellerophon Taming Pegasus | 9.1 | 30 | 75px | Jacques Lipchitz | 1977 | Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | 8.53 | 28 | 75px | Lei Yixin | 2011 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | granite | Carved into a 9.1 m (30 ft) block of granite.[26] |
Forever Marilyn (Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch) |
7.9 | 26 | 75px | Seward Johnson | 2011 | The Sculpture Foundation, Hamilton, New Jersey |
stainless steel, aluminum | Exhibited in Chicago, Illinois (2011-12) and Palm Springs, California (2012-14) |
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Civic Fame | 7.6 | 25 | Adolph Alexander Weinman | 1914 | Manhattan Municipal Building, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | gilded copper |
Stands atop a 180 m (580 ft) office building. There is disagreement as to whether the model for the statue was Audrey Munson or Julia “Dudie” Baird. |
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Miss Pocahontas[27] | 7.6 | 25 | W. C. Ballard | 1956 | Pocahontas, Iowa | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | steel, wood & fiberglass | ||
Johnny Kaw | 7.6 | 25 | William Stewart | 1966 | Manhattan, Kansas | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | concrete over a steel frame | Stands upon a 0.25 m (0.75 ft) base Total monument height: 7.85 m (25.75 ft)[28] |
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Unconditional Surrender | 7.6 | 25 | Seward Johnson | 2007 | San Diego, California | a foam core with a urethane outer layer | |||
Orpheus Francis Scott Key Monument |
7.3 | 24 | Charles Henry Niehaus | 1922 | Fort McHenry Baltimore, Maryland |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Commissioned in 1914 to commemorate the centennial of Key's writing of The Star-Spangled Banner. Stands upon a 4.6 m (15 ft) pedestal Total monument height: 11.9 m (39 ft)[29] |
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Fountain of Time | 7.3 | 24 | 75px | Lorado Taft | 1922 | Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | hollow-cast concrete over a steel frame | Total monument length: 38.7 m (127 ft) Father Time watching the parade of humanity |
Ad Astra (To the Stars) | 6.76 | 22.2 | 75px | Richard Bergen | 2002 | Kansas State Capitol, Tokepa, Kansas |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze |
A Kansa warrior aiming an arrow at the North Star[30] Stands atop the Capitol dome |
The American Volunteer "Old Simon" |
6.55 | 21.5 | Carl Conrads George Keller (architect) |
1876 installed 1880 |
Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | solid granite |
Stands upon a 7 m (23 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 13.55 m (44.5 ft) Exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Tallest statue in the United States prior to 1886 completion of the Statue of Liberty.[31] |
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Goddess of Victory and Peace | 6.4 | 21 | Samuel Murray | 1910 | Pennsylvania State Memorial Gettysburg Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze |
Stands atop a 27.1 m (89 ft) pavilion. Total monument height: 33.5 m (110 ft) The goddess figure was cast from melted-down cannons.[32] |
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Apotheosis of St. Louis | 6.1 | 20 | Charles Henry Niehaus | 1903-06 | St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Niehaus modeled the statue in plaster for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. It was later cast in bronze by W. R. Hodges. Stands upon a 5.9 m (19.5 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 12 m (39.5 ft)[33] |
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Columbia Triumphant USS Maine Quadriga |
6.1 | 20 | Attilio Piccirilli | 1913 | USS Maine National Monument, Columbus Circle, Central Park, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | gilded bronze |
Stands upon a 13.1 m (43 ft) pylon Total monument height: 19.2 m (63 ft)[34] |
Statues under 6.1 m (20 ft)
Statue | Height | Image | Sculptor | Completed | Location | Coordinates | Materials | Notes | |
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m | ft | ||||||||
‘’Statue of Freedom’’ | 5.9 | 19.5 | Thomas Crawford | 1862 | United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands atop the lantern of the U.S. Capitol's dome. | |
Thomas Jefferson | 5.8 | 19 | Rudulph Evans | 1943 | Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze |
Stands upon a 1.8 m (6 ft) pedestal Total monument height: 7.6 m (25 ft)[35] |
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Colorado Thatcher Memorial Fountain |
5.5 | 18 | 75px | Lorado Taft | 1918 | City Park, Denver, Colorado |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands upon a 2.75 m (9 ft) pedestal. |
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox | 5.5 | 18 | Cyril M. Dickenson (Bunyan) Jim Payton (Babe) |
Bunyan 1937 Babe 1939 |
Bemidji, Minnesota | concrete and plaster | Bunyan stands upon a 0.4 m (1.5 ft) base. Total monument height: 5.9 m (19.5 ft)[36] |
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Illustrious Brother George Washington | 5.26 | 17.25 | 75px | Bryant Baker | 1950 | George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands upon a 1.57 m (5.16 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 6.83 m (22.41 ft)[37] Dedicated by President Harry S. Truman, February 22, 1950 |
Equestrian Statue of General Ulysses S. Grant | 5.23 | 17.2 | Henry Shrady | 1924 | Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, west of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands upon a 6.86 (22.5 ft) pedestal Total monument height: 12.1 m (39.7 ft)[38] |
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Theodore Roosevelt | 5.2 | 17 | 75px | Paul Manship | 1967 | Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial, Potomac River, Washington, D.C. |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Stands upon a 1.7 m (5.6 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 9.1 m (30 ft)[39] |
Pioneer Woman | 5.2 | 17 | 75px | Bryant Baker | 1930 | Ponca City, Oklahoma | bronze on granite bass | The statue design was chosen out of 12 different models by the museum going public after an extended tour of the models | |
Air Force Honor Guard | 5.2 | 17 | Zenos Frudakis | 2006 | United States Air Force Memorial, Arlington, Virginia |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze |
The memorial features three stainless steel spires, representing the contrails of the Air Force Thunderbirds. The tallest of these is 82.3 m (270 ft).[40] |
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Equestrian Statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman Memorial |
4.72 | 15.5 | Augustus Saint Gaudens | 1903 | Grand Army Plaza, Central Park, New York City |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | gilded bronze | Stands upon a 2.7 m (8.8 ft) base Total monument height: 7.42 (24.3 ft) |
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Diana of the Tower | 4.45 | 14.6 | 75px | Augustus Saint Gaudens | 1893 | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | gilded copper |
Created as a replacement weather vane for the 92.66 m (304 ft) tower of Madison Square Garden, New York City. Removed when the building was demolished, 1925.[41] |
George Washington | 4.3 | 14 | 75px | Lorado Taft | 1909 | University of Washington, Seattle, Washington |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | bronze | Created for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Stands upon a 8.5 (28 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 12.8 m (42 ft)[42] |
Benjamin Franklin | 3.8 | 12.5 | James Earle Fraser | 1938 | Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | marble |
Stands upon a 2.5 m (8.4 ft) pedestal. Total monument height: 7.3 m (20.9 ft)[43] The Institute's rotunda is a memorial to Franklin. |
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- List of statues
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- List of megalithic sites
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- List of Mesoamerican pyramids
References
- ↑ National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. http://www.nps.gov/archive/stli/prod02.htm
- ↑ Our Lady of the Rockies (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Huntville Statue & Visitors Center, www.samhoustonstatue.org
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Indian of Skowhegan, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Hiawatha (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Jolly Green Giant (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Babe the Blue Ox, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Paul Bunyan (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Rocket Thrower, from NYC Parks.
- ↑ The Big Indian, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Paul Bunyan, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Hürriyet Daily News (Ankara, Turkey), September 19, 2011.[1]
- ↑ Paul Bunyan (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (44 pages, including maps and photos)
- ↑ Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Miss Pocahontas, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Johnny Kaw (sculpture), from SIRIS.
- ↑ Francis Scott Key Monument, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Ad Astra, from SIRIS.
- ↑ George Hess, History of the Antietam National Cemetery, Including A Descriptive List of All The Loyal Soldiers Buried Therein... (Harrisburg, PA: Daily Independent Print, 1890), p. 9.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Apotheosis of St. Louis, from SIRIS.
- ↑ USS Maine Monument, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Jefferson Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Illustrious Brother George Washington, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Grant Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ United States Air Force Memorial, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Diana, from Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- ↑ George Washington, from SIRIS.
- ↑ Benjamin Franklin, from SIRIS.