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All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers & Sailors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
by J Otto Schweizer
Bronze by J Otto Schweizer
Address: Landsdowne Drive near Memorial HallWest side of Fairmount Park
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number PA000002 (dcMem ID #6568)
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TO COMMEMORATE THE HEROISM AND SACRIFICE
OF ALL COLORED SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN THE
VARIOUS WARS ENGAGED IN BY THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA THAT A LASTING RECORD
SHALL BE MADE OF THEIR UNSELFISH DEVOTION
TO DUTY AS AN INSPIRATION TO FUTURE
GENERATIONS THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED
MAY 30TH, 1934 (A list of commissioners follows)
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ERECTED BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN HONOR OF HER COLORED SOLDIERS
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Foreground: Aero Memorial
Background: All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers & Sailors
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