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The main portion of this sculpture features a bronze female and male couple standing on a low rectangular base. The female raises both of her arms with her proper right and left hands resting on their respective shoulders. The male figure stands closely on her proper left side with his proper right
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The lower right side of the sculpture is signed: J. E. FRASER The lower left side of the sculpture is marked: Kunst-Foundry N.Y.
311:. Her father, William J. Boardman, a lawyer and philanthropist who died August 2, 1915, is also buried in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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survey in 1993. This sculpture rests at the site of the grave of
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and his wife. A number of Keep's personal belongings were donated to the
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The letters of Ruth Draper: self-portrait of an actress, 1920-1956
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380:"Frederick Keep Monument (sculpture)"
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577:. Smithsonian. Archived from
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551:. New York Tribune. 1909
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670:Frederick Keep Monument
545:"Society in Washington"
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316:U.S. Secretary of State
211:INFANT OF F AND F. KEEP
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335:President William Taft
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521:. Random House, 2009.
292:Frederick Keep was a
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214:DIED OCT. 6, 1902
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805:Navy Cross
656:Sculptures
357:References
288:Background
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