Minuteman monument at Concord, Massachusetts, 1908 Glidden Tour

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Minuteman monument at Concord, Massachusetts, 1908 Glidden Tour
Description:
View of Minuteman monument at Concord, Massachusetts during the 1908 Glidden Tour. Statue was designed by Daniel Chester French. Inscription, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, reads: "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled, here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world." Handwritten on back: "Tours--Glidden Tour, 1908."
Details
Resource ID:
na023842
Subject:
Minutemen (Militia)--Monuments--Massachusetts--Concord
French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
Glidden Tour (1908)
Automobile driving--Competitions--United States
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1908-07
Format:
1 photographic print ; 6.75 x 4.25 in.
Member of:
National Automotive History Collection
Lazarnick Collection
Filing Location:
Tours--Glidden Tour, 1908 #33
Negative Number:
Negative #C21,292
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.