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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Valley Forge
1915
Close-up of a bronze statue of Major General Friedrich Wihelm Baron von Steuben of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Installed in 1915, the J. Otto Schweizer statue stand...
Trudeau Monument
1918
A statue of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, a tuberculosis specialist, on the grounds of the Trudeau Sanitorium Historic District. Installed in 1918, the bronze Gutzon Borglum statue depicts Trudeau...
Statue of Pocahontas
1922
Close-up of a statue of Pocahontas located in the oldtown area of the city. Installed in 1922, and sculpted by William Ordway Partridge, the bronze statue stands on a simple stone pedestal and tre...
Monument of Samuel D. Champlain
1912
Statue dedicated to the French geographer, explorer and colonialist Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635). A bronze man in a cape stands at the top of the pedestal and stone statues of a crouching Nativ...
Buffalo Bill Monument
1924
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture entitled "Buffalo Bill - The Scout," which commemorates William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The bronze sculpture of a man on horseback brandishing a rifl...
Longfellow Monument and Square
1920
Close-up of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow monument and the surrounding cobbled square. Installed in 1888 and sculpted by Franklin Simmons, the monument features a bronze of Longfellow seated and ...
