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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D7583-2
Date(s)
- 1938-10-26 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
The wood replica of the Reims Cathedral at Notre-Dame, France, carved by Thomas Jacobsen, of 1007 So. Tyler St. It took Mr. Jacobsen three years to create his beautiful 3 foot tall model, which includes 250 separate statues. He used three kinds of wood - alder, birch, and walnut and worked from a photograph in National Geographic Magazine. (T. Times 10/26/1938, p.1)
Cathedrals--France; Reims Cathedral (France); Wood Carving--Tacoma--1930-1940; Wood carvings; Jacobsen, Thomas--Associated objects;