| "TO THE BRAVE MEN WHO PERISHED IN THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC APRIL 15, 1912 THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT WOMEN AND CHILDREN MIGHT BE SAVED |
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| ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF AMERICA" |
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| Originally dedicated on May 26, 1931, at the foot of New Hampshire Ave. in Rock Creek Park along the Potomac River, the monument was removed in 1966 to accommodate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
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| The memorial was re-erected without ceremony in 1968 on the south Washington waterfront outside Fort McNair in Washington Channel Park at Fourth and P Streets, SW. |
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| Inscriptions on the back and side of monument. The sculpture, designed by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sits atop the center of a 30-foot exedra designed by noted architect Henry Bacon, who also designed the Lincoln Memorial. |
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| The carving of the thirteen-foot high statue was done by John Horrigan in Quincy, Massachusetts, from a single piece of red granite furnished from Westerly, RI, by the Henry C. Smalley Granite Co. Mr. Horrigan is seen working near the right shoulder of the sculpture. |
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