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Nine notable Americans honored at N.Y.U. Hall of Fame"--Colorful ceremonies attend unveiling of busts" – Antique Wall Art

Nine notable Americans honored at N.Y.U. Hall of Fame"--Colorful ceremonies attend unveiling of busts", [between 1920 and 1950] — historic photograph
Nine notable Americans honored at N.Y.U. Hall of Fame"--Colorful ceremonies attend unveiling of busts", [between 1920 and 1950]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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This photograph documents the unveiling of a bust of John Quincy Adams, one of nine Americans honored in a single ceremony at New York University's Hall of Fame for Great Americans. The hall is an open-air colonnade on the university's Bronx campus, designed by Stanford White and built to honor notable figures from American history, with each name chosen by a panel of electors. The record describes the event as a colorful ceremony, and the crowd and pageantry suggest how seriously the university treated these public tributes in the decades before 1950. Adams, the sixth president and a long-serving diplomat and congressman, is a fitting subject for a hall dedicated to national leaders.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1950]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1950.
NotesNo. S/884B1690.
SubjectsAdams, John Quincy,--1767-1848--Statues. Rites & ceremonies--New York--1920-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-194532

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