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At close range (1905) NOVEL by Francis Hopkinson Smith

At close range (1905) NOVEL by Francis Hopkinson Smith

Smith, Francis Hopkinson

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1523795409
ISBN13: 9781523795406
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 31 2016
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 - April 7, 1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings.Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys' Latin School of Maryland. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba and in Mexico. He also visited and sketched in Venice, Constantinople and the Netherlands.

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