Name/Title
Vinnie ReamEntry/Object ID
2003.0611.023Description
Portrait of Miss Vinnie Ream wearing interesting jewelry.
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In looking at Google information: "Vinnie Ream was awarded the commission for the full-size Cararra marble statue of Lincoln by a vote of Congress in 1866 when the artist was 18 years old. Vinnie Ream also designed the first free-standing statue of a Native American (Sequoyah) to be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. She built the first major monument to a U.S. Navy Officer (Admiral David Farragut) to be built in Washington, D.C.
Vinnie Ream was also one of the first women to be employed by the Federal Government as a clerk in the Dead Letter Office of the United States Postal Service (USPS) from 1862-1866 during the Civil War. A First Day Cover stamp was issued in honor of Vinnie Ream and her work on the statue of Sequoyah, the Native American inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. [Vinnie Ream stamp]
A noted writer and singer, she helped wounded soldiers write letters and gave concerts in the Civil War hospitals." source vinnieream.comCollection
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