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13: INDEPENDENT MAN: Who is that guy on the State House?
14 minutes Posted May 11, 2021 at 9:56 am.
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  • Third Floor - Rhode Island - Nellie M. Gorbea
  • The Man Atop the Statehouse
  • The Independent Man, "Hope," Rhode Island State House
  • Rhode Island State House
  • My Turn: Patrick T. Conley: Taking down the Independent Man
  • Head of the Independent Man – URI's Cabinet of Curiosities
  • Rhode Island State House
  • State Capitol Buildings, Statues of Men at the Top
  • RI's Independent Woman
  • In search of the Rhode Island independent woman
  • New York Tribune | April 17, 1921 | Notables to Aid in Unveiling Bolivar Statue 
  • Newport Mercury | The Grist Mill 
  • BOLIVAR'S STATUE UNVEILED.; CEREMONIES AND ADDRESSES AROUND THE SITE IN CENTRAL PARK. (Published 1884)
  • DISLIKE BOLIVAR’S STATUE: National Sculpture Society Officials Write to the Park Board Condemning the Model
  • That Statue of Bolivar
  • Statues of New York
  • New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, April 12, 1921, Page 8, Image 8
  • The Simon Bolivar Statue - Central Park at 6th Avenue  
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