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Slocum Disaster Memorial
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| Artist: | Bruno Louis Zimm |
| Dedicated: | 1906 |
| Description: | Stele with curved top; on front a bas relief over a shell basin with lion-head spouting fountain |
| Materials: | Tennessee pink marble |
| Dimensions: | H: 9'2" W: 6' D: 4'11" |
| Donor: | Sympathetic Society of German Ladies |
| Cast: | ca. 1906 |
Inscription
(front, upper right): THEY WERE / EARTH'S / PUREST / CHILDREN / YOUNG AND / FAIR(proper right side): IN MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO LOST / THEIR LIVES / IN THE DISASTER TO / THE STEAMER / GENERAL SLOCUM / JUNE XV / MCMIV
(proper left side): DEDICATED / BY / THE SYMPATHY SOCIETY / OF GERMAN LADIES / THE YEAR OF OUR LORD / MCMVI
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