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Gaetano Cecere's Abraham Lincoln stands tall at 10'6". The full-length portrait shows a young beardless Lincoln looking down. The cast bronze sculpture sits on a Wausau red granite pedestal. There are various inscriptions on the sculpture. The lower left corner of the back of the bronze base reads:Gaetano Cecere, Sculptor 1934.
The lower right corner of the back of the bronze base reads:Jno Williams, NY 1934
The front of the base reads:ABRAHAM LINCOLN
1809–1865
PRESIDENT
EMANCIPATOR
MARTYRThe granite pedestal's west face reads:With malice toward none...and with all nations
The pedestal's south face reads:This monument is a gift of the Grand Army of the Republic, the school children, workingmen and citizens in general of the city of Milwaukee as an expression of their love, loyalty of country and reverence for a great emancipator.
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Committee, Inc.
City of MilwaukeeJanuary 31, 1932.
The pedestal's east face has four quotes by different individuals. These are:"One of Nature's Masterful Great Men" Richard Henry Stoddard
"A Man Inspired of God" Henry Watterson
"The Man of the People" Edwin Markham
"The First American" James Russell Lowell.
Grand Army of the Republic American bronze Edwin Markham Gaetano Cecere Henry Watterson Jno Williams Abraham Lincoln Richard Henry Stoddard James Russell Lowell Milwaukee Lincoln Memorial