Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realism of mood and swirl of action The First World War cannot be compared in scope or variety with the great ten-volume Photographic History of the Civil War issued in 1911 by Review of Reviews Co. That work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into...
...park directly opposite the former home of Longfellow connects the estate with the Charles River and perpetuates the view which the poet had from his study window. The carved figures upon the monument in the center of the park represent some of the characters which will be readily recognized by readers of Longfellow's works...
...Charlestown the party will go through the Charlestown Navy Yard and after a short ride will arrive at Breeds Hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Tablets mark the important points of the battle and an opportunity is given to those who wish to climb Bunker Hill Monument which affords an excellent view of Boston...
...Plymouth all points of historic interest will be visited, including Plymouth Rock; Cole's Hill; Burial Hill; Forefather's Monument; the Harlow House, erected in 1677 from timbers of the old fort on Burial Hill; and Pilgrim Hall, which contains the best collection of relics of Pilgrim life in the country. The tickets for this excursion include a 75 mile trip in special buses, and admission to all houses included in the itinerary...
...Mather tradition goes on. Director Cammerer, tall, browned, 49 and a good mixer, has not seen his new domain in years. While supervising east ern parks, he has puttered expertly in his two-acre Lyonhurst garden, chewing an unlit cigar. In the Eastern service he has already erected a monument to himself. It was he who handled the acquisition - through State help, private grants, $5,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation - of the lands for Great Smoky Mountains Park, in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. The park, not yet formally opened, had 300,000 visitors last year...