Plaque commemorating the USS BUNKER HILL

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Egan Photo Service
USA, MA, Boston, Charlestown
paper
overall: 2-1/2 x 1-1/2 in.

Photograph; black-and-white photograph of a carved plaque commemorating the USS BUNKER HILL; top has eagle with shield holding globe in talons, border is carved to look like rope, USS BUNKER HILL is underway at bottom, Bunker Hill with monument and statue of William Prescott is in middle background, three aircraft flying above; carved on front " "BY THE BLESSING/ OF GOD, MAY OUR COUNTRY/ BECOME A VAST AND SPLENDID/ MONUMENT, NOT OF OPPRESSION/ AND TERROR, BUT OF WISDOM, OF/ PEACE, AND OF LIBERTY, UPON/ WHICH THE WORLD MAY GAZE/ WITH ADMIRATION FOREVER."/ FIRST BUNKER HILL ORATION/ DANIEL WEBSTER" and "U.S.S. BUNKER HILL/ THIS PLAQUE SPONSORED BY/ BUNKER HILL POST 26 THE AMERICAN LEGION"; stamped on back in black in "PHOTO BY/ EGAN PHOTO SERVICE/ STUDIO 446 TREMONT ST., BOSTON". Related to 2002.94.368.

2002.94.367