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Teenage frontier prodigy sculptor did most realistic hands of Lincoln
Washington dispatch recalls Vinnie Ream, a Wisconsin frontier teen who became the first female artist commissioned by Congress for a full length statue of Abraham Lincoln. The article sketches her life from a farm, through schooling in Missouri, to sittings with Lincoln, and her historic commitment in 1866.
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Lincoln
Leonard Volk
Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
Johnson Vs. Jones & Marsh
Vinnie Ream
Wisconsin Frontier
Missouri
Washington
Clark Mills
Mills
Ream
George Caleb Bingham
Winnie Ream
State Historical Society of
Congress
Miss Ream
David Glasgow Farragut
U.S. Navy
Washington Navy Yard
Farragut
Navy
Richard Hoxie
U.S. Army
Vinnie Ream Hoxie Lincoln
Capitol
Daniel French
Frontier