File:Houser Memorial - Mother and daughter - Rock Creek Cemetery - Washington, D.C. - Sarah Stierch - C.jpg

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Houser Memorial
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The memorial features a sculpture of a seated of Helen L. Houser with her arm around the shoulders of her young daughter, Anna Victoria Houser, seated beside her. With her left hand, the mother points to the page of an open book resting in her daughter's lap. The sculpture rests atop a rectangular base.

Michael Richman, SAAM curatorial assistant, 1967-1969.

Source: Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

SIRIS Link: <a href="http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!377992~!0#focus" rel="nofollow">siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=...</a>

Location: Rock Creek Cemetery, Rock Creek Church Road, N.W., Section I, Lot 187, Washington, District of Columbia 20011

Photo by Sarah Stierch

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 77001498.

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Object location38° 56′ 52″ N, 77° 00′ 47″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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