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You Are Here : Home / Property and Business/ Zoning and Planning / Historic Preservation / Public Restoration Projects / Memory Sculpture / Photos of Restoration

Photos of Restoration

One of the sculptures before restoration

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Taking a mold of the sculpture

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Sculptor Emory P. Seidel at Work

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Steam cleaning the sculptures

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Applying water repellant

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Postcard showing bridge and sculptures

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Testing the sculptures

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