Mold to Reproduce Sculpture of a Soldier’s Head

Making of the Memorial

Item contributed by Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park

Impossible to see from the outside, this plaster mold reproduced the fine detail of a soldier’s head in the Shaw/54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

an unrecognizable hunk of plaster a hollow piece of plaster with a dark hole inside.


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Plaster piece mold for black soldier's head for the Shaw/54th Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.  Height 18.4cm, width 15.2cm. SAGA 3684.

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The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

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