Harriet Beecher Stowe, Portrait Bust

Title
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Portrait Bust
Creator
Putnam, Brenda
Biographical Text
Bronze portrait bust resembling Stowe. The bust sits on a tall cement pedestal and is housed in an open-air colonnade.
The bust was sculpted by Brenda Putnam in 1925. Descendants of Stowe attended the unveiling ceremony of the bust. It was created in order to be displayed in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which currently consists of 96 busts of great Americans, who were nominated over seven decades by private citizens across the country.
Date Created
1925
Type
English Statue
Bibliographic Citation
Harriet Beecher Stowe Bust, CUNY Academic Commons
Harriet Beecher Stowe bust unveiling with descendants, Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York
Project Researcher
Bysterbusch, Hailey
Item sets
The Penny Colman Collection of Historical Landmarks of Women

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