Statue of General William F. Draper
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Title
Statue of General William F. Draper
Subject
Draper, William F. (William Franklin), 1842-1910; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States.Army--Generals; United States.Army.Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 25th; United States.Army.Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 36th; Legislators--United States--1890-1990; Equestrian statues--Massachusetts--Milton; Draper family; French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
Description
A photograph of the Statue of General William Franklin Draper located in Draper Park in the heart of Milford, Massachusetts. The statue shows General William F. Draper seated upon a horse. Both the park and the statue were presented to the town by his wife, Susan Preston Draper, in 1912, shortly after his death on Jan. 28, 1910. The statue was designed by Daniel Chester French, probably best known for his statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1912-1940?
Relation
Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
Format
image/jpg
Language
en-US
Type
Image
Files
Collection
Citation
“Statue of General William F. Draper,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 18, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/742.
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