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Title: Statue of Wisdom
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: Taken on October 26, 1928, in the State Library's Circulation Room, this Edward Field Sanford, Jr., sculpture symbolizes ""Wisdom."" The work was done in green bronze and Sanford was quoted in the 1939 Sacramento Bee Guide Book as saying that for Wisdom ""I have used a mature head and a youthful body to express the idea that knowledge, when acquired, regains youth.""
Type: image
Identifier: 791
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/1399
Subject: Art
Sculptures
Libraries
Buildings, Government
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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