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22 Jul, 7 tweets, 4 min read

the lost american tradition of Bas-relief, apollo using the telephone in nyc, in cincinnati rail station and a wonderful one with An inscription on the west wall of Berkeley High School "the spirit of the New Deal builders". The bas-relief was done by Jacques Schnier.

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great one ,Nebraska State Capitol. Lee O. Lawrie, sculptor; Harley Burr Alexander, symbolism and inscriptions; Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, architect. The poem is Alexander’s rendition of an old Navajo poem

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