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Just a note that my ebook is now available on Barnes & Noble's as well as Amazon.

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Oil Well Construction Worker by Lee Lawrie

Here is a detail of one of the figures on the facade of the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton
Rouge. The building was completed in 1932.  Lawrie once remarked that Huey Long was one of the few men he'd worked for in his career that actually paid him promptly when the work was done.

Lee Lawrie's work at Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University

Here is a great photo of some of Lawrie's playful work on Myron Taylor Hall at Cornell, circa 1930.

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Another work of Lawrie's identified.

I was reviewing one of the documents that I photographed at the Library of Congress in 2006 and noted a memorial there with which I was unfamiliar.

Lawrie's notes attribute it as being the Hubbard-Bell Memorial at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

While this appears on the Smithsonian's list of sculpture, it does not attribute the work to Lawrie. I emailed them today and hopefully will get a response on it soon, and perhaps credit for the discovery.

I am always excited when I find a new work of Lawrie's that I had never seen before. Especially when it is not attributed to him, and I make the discovery on my own.

Merry Christmas everyone.


Greg

Shot last summer.

The Omah Livestock Exchange Building.

http://www.omahalivestockexchange.com/

The Omaha Livestock Exchange Building.

Shot this last week. Beautiful building that they rescued and are now using it for apartments. Thank God they didn't 'doze this one too.

As a kid, I recall visiting Omaha with my parents, around 1960, just after they opened up Interstate 80.  We drove up to visit one of my Dad's cousins.  Driving past the Omaha Stockyards was an odoriferous experience for sure.  

The link has a little history on it.  We tried to go up to visit the building's famous ballroom, but it was closed that afternoon.

Lee Lawrie's Boys Town Mural

Lee Lawrie's Boy's town mural. Circa 1949-50.