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Winged Figures of the Republic (via SheldonBranford)Rising from a black, polished base, is a 142-foot flagpole flanked by two winged figures, which Norwegian-born American naturalized sculptor Oskar J.W. Hansen calls the Winged Figures of the Republic. They express “the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment.”

Winged Figures of the Republic (via SheldonBranford)

Rising from a black, polished base, is a 142-foot flagpole flanked by two winged figures, which Norwegian-born American naturalized sculptor Oskar J.W. Hansen calls the Winged Figures of the Republic. They express “the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment.”