The Union Workers Memorial - Atlantic City, NJ
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N 39° 21.227 W 074° 26.265
18S E 548442 N 4356188
This sculpture is across from the famous Atlantic City Convention Center at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk.
Waymark Code: WM9R9W
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2010
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One of two sculptures by Thomas Jay Warren on the Atlantic City Boardwalk (the other is the New Jersey Korean War Memorial) this sculpture depicts a contemplative worker with his hardhat in his right hand and ruminating over the names on the adjacent monument which is "DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ORGANIZED LABOR WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE WORKING ON THE REDEVELOPMENT OF ATLANTIC CITY- WE HONOR THESE WORKERS" And underneath are the names of the departed workers with their Union membership and date of death. As of 9/2010, there were 25 names engraved on the front of the monument and 1 on the back. The monument also indicates that the Memorial was dedicated April 28, 1998 by the members of the Atlantic- Cape May County C.L.C.- AFL-CIO.
TITLE: The Union Workers Memorial
ARTIST(S): Thomas Jay Warren
DATE: 2008
MEDIUM: bronze
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 71500932
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
at Kennedy Plaza on the Atlantic City Boardwalk (near the Convention Center).
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
The Inventory doesn't have any description-- not even the usual detail of the media used. (Bronze is the Waymark poster's best guess.)
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