Washington DC Stock Photography - Robert Taft Memorial & James Garfield Monument

  • Below you'll find a gallery of Washington DC stock photography featuring the Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon & James A. Garfield Monument in the Capitol Grounds.

 

  • Including photographs of the bronze statue of senator Taft dwarfed by the Carillon (white bell tower) and bronze statue of President Garfield.

 

  • Please take a look at Liberty Photo Art's photograph gallery below.

Washington DC Stock Photography

Washington DC stock photography is now available to view and up for sale on Liberty Photo Art's Adobe Stock image portfolio

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Washington DC stock photography is now available to view on Liberty Photo Art's Adobe Stock image portfolio :

 

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A brief history of the memorial and monument located within the Capitol Grounds to go alongside Liberty Photo Art's Washington DC stock photography

 

 

 

 

 

  • The Robert A. Taft Memorial & Carillon is a carillon dedicated as a memorial to the former Ohio senator, Robert A. Taft.

 

  • The memorial was designed by Douglas W. Orr and consists of a white bell tower (The Carillon) made from Tennessee marble standing at 100-feet tall with a 10-foot bronze statue of Taft at the base of the tower sculpted by Wheeler Williams.

 

  • Above the statue of Robert Alphonso Taft inscribed on the bell tower reads;

 

  • This memorial to Robert A. Taft, presented by the people to the Congress of the United States, stands as a tribute to honesty, indomitable courage and high principles of free government symbolized by his life".

 

 

Garfield Monument

 

 

  • The James A. Garfield Monument stands in a small traffic circle in the south-western grounds of the U.S Capitol between First Street, SW and Maryland Avenue.

 

  • James A. Garfield was elected the 20th, President of the United States in 1880, but was assassinated in 1881 after only 4 months in office.

 

  • The classical Beaux Arts monument was sculpted by John Quincy Adams Ward, with the pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
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