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Friday, October 1, 2010

Graceland Cemetery: Crusader

Posted on 6:57 AM by babli panday




Tomb of Victor F. Lawson
Graceland Cemetery
Crusader, a huge granite statue of a knight in armor was carved by famed sculptor Lorado Taft in 1931 .. He also sculpted the Eternal Silence click here..

Crusader marks the grave of newspaper publisher Victor Lawson [1850-1925], who established the Chicago Daily News in 1875 ..

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