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Clark Mills Foundry, ca. 1862


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Clark Mills Foundry, ca. 1862
Clark Mills’s foundry, where the bronze Statue of Freedom was cast. Mills’s enslaved artisan, Philip Reid, labored on the statue seven days a week and played a critical role in the project’s success.
credit: Library of Congress