Bronze Statue of Laddie Boy
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Harding, Warren G (Warren Gamaliel) 1865-1923
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- A man stands besides the bronze statue of Laddie Boy designed by Bashka Paeff. Laddie Boy was President Warren Harding's Airedale. The inscription reads "Laddie Boy, cast from the pennies of newsboys throughout the nation in memory of Warren Gamaliel Harding, their friend". It was a gift of the Roosevelt Newsboys' Association.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 18, Folder: 7
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1923
- Standard number
- SIA2009-0445 and 811
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Laddie Boy
- Statues
- Bronze
- Paeff, Bashka
- Dogs
- Animals
- Newsboys
- Gifts
- Pennies
- Roosevelt Newsboys' Association
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7819
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