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Work contract for the "pedestal for the Garfield monument at Washington, D.C."

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06343.235 Author/Creator: Place Written: [Washington, D.C.] Type: Autograph manuscript Date: circa December 1884 Pagination: 4 p. ; 31.7 cm x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

Specified in the contract are the categories: "General [work mission]"; "Excavations"; "Foundations"; "Cut Granite Work"; "Inscription"; and "Bronze Stationary". The work was to be completed by 1885/09/15.

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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