Detail of Washington Monument: Color photo showing detail of Washington Monument, Washington, DC. Granite block with carved whale, reading 'NEW BEDFORD. MASS./ 1851.' The granite block was donated by the city toward construction of the monument.
MODEL OF THE SPERM WHALE. The block which the city of New Bedford is to contribute to the Washington Monument is to bear the figure of the Sperm Whale--the most appropriate device of course which could be adopted. The original design for the block was drawn by Mr Asa Wood, of New Bedford; the work is to be executed by Messrs Bryant & Gooding. Mr David Baker has moulded in clay a whale which is pronounced perfect, after a consultation with many old whalemen, copies of which are to be taken in iron. --Boston Evening Transcript, August 27, 1851.
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