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[Marian (Clover) Adams Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Print

[Marian (Clover) Adams Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], 1923 — historic photograph
[Marian (Clover) Adams Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], 1923. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Marian (Clover) Adams Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Marian (Clover) Adams Monument in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]

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Few graves in Washington are as quietly striking as the bronze figure in Rock Creek Cemetery that marks Marian "Clover" Adams, wife of the historian Henry Adams, who died in 1885. Rather than a headstone bearing her name, her husband commissioned the work from sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens: a seated, hooded form whose face is hidden in shadow, often called simply "Grief." This 1923 photograph shows the monument more than three decades after its installation, when it had already become one of the cemetery's best-known sights. The figure carries no inscription, which has invited visitors to read their own meanings into it ever since.

Created / published1923
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsAdams, Marian,--1843-1885--Monuments. Monuments & memorials--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,255 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191884

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