Name/Title
Negative, glass plateEntry/Object ID
1993.100.0113Description
Unidentified monument with standing figure on top, classical woman figurines around bottom, unidentified photographer in left corner. Black and white. "Carl Linnaeus Statue (Linne) now in Hyde Park - Chicago, Illinois Originally in Lincoln Park on a different pedestal. Carl von Linne Monument ..Sculptor: Carl Johan Dyfverman ..Location: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ..Commissioned by the Swedish community of Chicago, from 1891 the Carl von Linné statue stood at Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park. Transferred by the Swedish Bicentennial Commission to the Midway south of Harper Library, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustav rededicated it, April 19, 1976. "Collection
Special Collections