The embossment of Herbert R. Albrecht, the president of the North Dakota State University from 1962 to 1968, located on the Albrecht Boulevard at the North Dakota State University at Fargo, North Dakota.
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North Dakota State University (32): Herbert R. Albrecht Embossment
Sunday, November 15th, 2009North Dakota State University (31): Herbert R. Albrecht Embossment
Saturday, November 14th, 2009The embossment of Herbert R. Albrecht, the president of the North Dakota State University from 1962 to 1968, located on the Albrecht Boulevard at the North Dakota State University at Fargo, North Dakota.
Downtown Chicago (291): Louis Jolliet & Pere Jacques Marquette Embossment
Monday, August 17th, 2009Louis Jolliet & Pere Jacques Marquette Embossment located at the north end of the Michigan Avenue Bridge on the Magnificent Mile at Chicago, Illinois.
Downtown Chicago (278): An Embossment
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Iowa State Capitol (123): A Soldier Embossment
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Iowa State Capitol (119): A Fountain
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Helena (36): An Indian Embossment
Sunday, October 5th, 2008An Indian Embossment located at the Main Street (also known as Last Chance Gulch Street) at Helena, Montana.
The engraving at the bottom of the embossment says:
THE ABUNDANCE OF WILD LIFE, WHICH FOR THOUSANDS
OF YEARS HAS DRAWN MAN HERE TO THE PRICKLY PEAR
VALLEY, WAS NOTED BY LEWIS AND CLARK WHEN THEY
PASSED NEAR HERE IN 1805. BLACKFOOT AND FLATHEAD
INDIANS TRAVELED FROM THE NORTH AND WEST IN
SEARCH OF BUFFALO. THE MEAT AND HIDES WERE
DRIED FOR EAST TRANSPORTATION BACK TO THEIR
MORE PERMANENT HOMES WHERE THE “ROBES” WERE
TANNED AND THE MEAT STORED FOR THE HARSH WINTERS.PETROGLYPHS WHICH TELL THE STORY OF THEIR
PASSAGE ARE STILL EVIDENCE IN THE SURROUNDING
HILLS AND CANYON WALLS. THEIR NOMADIC WANDERING
ENDED AS SETTLERS PUSHED INTO THE FRONTIER.
Albany (160): Swan Street Building
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
University of Rochester (80): David Jayne Hill Memorial
Saturday, April 12th, 2008David Jayne Hill memorial by the Residence Halls at the River Campus of the University of Rochester.
The text under the relief reads:
This residence court built in 1969 named in honor of
DAVID JAYNE HILL
1850-1932
Second President of this University
1889-1896…
Student of the ancient classics. PRofessor of Moral Theology. Minister of the Baptist Church. Educational Statesman of Great Idealism. Under his inspired leadership, the University of Rochester expanded its resources, reformed its curriculum, rose beyond a narrow sectarianism, and advanced on the road to its proper destiny.
Mount Rushmore (16): National Park Service
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Niagara Falls (26): The Arch of Adams Station
Friday, August 31st, 2007The reerection of the arch of Adams Station, the world’s first hydroelectric power plant, located in the north of the Goat Island.
There are three plaques attached onto the arch. The one on the left leg of the arch says:
EDWARD DEAN ADAMS
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION
NUMBER ONE
INAUGURATED AUGUST 26.1895
BY
THE NIAGARA FALLS POWER COMPANY
The plaque on the right leg of the arch says:
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL ARCH ENTRANCE
TO THE ADAMS STATION,
THE WORLD’S FIRST HYDROELECTRIC
POWER PLANT.Electric Power, its generation by water turbines,
its transmission in commercial quantities
to remote distances, the design and the building of the
first large electrical equipment-
all started with the completion of the
Adams Station in 1895 at Niagara Falls.
Its entrane was re-erected on this site in 1966
to commemorate the tremendous impact
which the generation of electric power at the
Adams Station gave to civilization
throughout the world.THIS ARCH DEDICATED 1967 BY
NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, GOVERNOR
The second plaque on the right leg of the arch says:
TO THE
ENGINEERS FINANCIERS SCIENTISTS
WHOSE
GENIUS COURAGE AND INDUSTRY
MADE POSSIBLE HERE
THE BIRTH OF HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER
AND CREATED THE FIRST
FIVE THOUSAND HORSE POWER
WATER TURBINES
DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO
ALTERNATING CURRENT GENERATORS
AND INAUGURATED
IN AMERICA
LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION OF
POWER BY ELECTRICITYERECTED BY
THE NIAGARA FALLS POWER COMPANY
MCMXXIVTHIS TABLET REPLACES THE ORIGINAL WHICH WAS LOST
1966
