Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Commodore George Hamilton Perkins: At Concord, New Hampshire, on the 25th Day of April, 1902 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1332171567 ISBN 13: 9781332171569

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Commodore George Hamilton Perkins: At Concord, New Hampshire, on the 25th Day of April, 1902

The site chosen for the memorial is on the west side of the Capitol, fronting on North State street and directly opposite the United States Government build ing. The bronze statue stands within a niche in the centre of a structure of granite which is in the form of an exedra, or semi-circular seat, terminating at the ends with granite pedestals. The granite structure is forty-two feet in length, twenty feet in depth, and twenty feet in height. The statue, which is seven and one half feet high, stands upon a solid block of granite carved to represent the prow of a ship: the dimensions of this block are, length, eleven feet, six inches; height, four feet, three inches; depth, five feet. The capstone of the central portion is a single piece of granite, ten feet and four inches long, one foot and eight inches high, and five feet deep. On each side of the capstone at the top of the niche are bas-reliefs representing Peace and War. On the sides of the monument are battle-emblems, and an eagle supported by a doric shaft on which is engraved a seal, - ou one side, the seal of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and on the other, the seal of the State of New Hampshire.

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Excerpt from Official Proceedings at the Dedication of the Statue of Commodore George Hamilton Perkins: At Concord, New Hampshire, on the 25th Day of April, 1902 On the twenty-second day of November, 1899, Mrs. Isabel Weld Anderson of Brookline, Massachusetts, in behalf of her mother, Mrs. Anna Weld Perkins, and herself, tendered to the State of New Hampshire, through His Excellency Frank West Rollins, Governor, a statue of her father, the late Commodore George Hamilton Perkins, United States Navy. In behalf of the people of the State, the Governor, with the advice of the Honorable Council, gave appropriate expression to their appreciation of the offer, and set apart a portion of the Capitol grounds as a site for the proposed memorial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332171567
• ISBN 13: 9781332171569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56