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ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL tural impact continues to be significant. His majestic Statue of Freedom (fig. 12) and other bronze and marble works continue to grace the Capitol. His friendship with Charles Sumner helped make his career possible, as did the confidence that Meigs and Davis had in his ability. His devotion to his vision is made manifest before our eyes in his Capitol sculptures; his name and his Statue of Freedom deserve to be better known. At the Second Inaugural of our first African American president, Senator Schumer said, "When the Civil War threatened to bring construction of the Dome to a halt, workers pressed onward, even without pay, until Congress approved additional funding to complete the Dome that would become a symbol of unity and democracy to the entire world." During this 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and completion of the United States Capitol with the placement of the Statue of Freedom: Stop. Look Up. Behold. Katya Miller is an author, videographer, and jewelry designer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research into the iconography of the Statue of Freedom led to her interest in Crawford and Sumner's friendship. She is a recent recipient of a United States Capitol Historical Society fellowship to support her further research. She is writing a book about the statue that she hopes to make into a documentary film. Please visit www.LadyFreedom.net and contact her with comments at miller.katya@gmail.com. Fig. 12. Crawford's Statue of Freedom was erected atop the dome of the Capitol in 1863, the same year the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Notes 1. Robert Gale, Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1964), p. 10. 2. Sylvia E, Crane, White Silence: Greenough, Powers, and 16. William C. Allen, History of the United States Capitol (Washington, D.C., 2001), p. 245. Everett is also known as the speaker who gave a two-hour oration prior to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Crawford, American Sculptors in Nineteenth-Century Italy 17. Crane. White Silence, p. 73. (Coral Gables, Fla., 1972), p. 408. 18. Ibid., p. 364. 3. Ibid, p. 294. 19. Allen, History of the United States Capitol, p. 325. 4. Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 4 vols. 20. Ibid., p. 246. (Boston, 1877–93), 2:95. 21. Ibid., p. 280. 5. Ibid., 2:274. 22. Ibid., p. 198. 6. Gale, Thomas Crawford, p. 21. 23. Ibid., p. 255. 7. Louise Hall Tharp, Three Saints and a Sinner: Julia Ward Howe, 24. Gale, Thomas Crawford, p. 56. Annie, Louisa and Sam Ward (Boston, 1956), p. 8. 25. Allen, History of the United States Capitol, p. 255. 8. Ibid. p. 47. Louisa's father died in 1839. 26. Ibid. p. 255. 9. Ibid. p. 121. 27. Tharp, Three Saints and a Sinner, p. 224. 10. Crane, White Silence, p. 350. 28. Gale, Thomas Crawford, p. 164. 11. Thomas B Bromberg, "The Evolution of Crawford's 29. Allen, History of the United States Capitol, p. 255. Washington," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 70 30. Gale, Thomas Crawford, p. 164. (1962):3-29. 31. Ibid., p. 182. 12. Crane, White Silence, p. 351. 32. Ibid., p. 182. 13. Ibid., p. 347. 33. Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, 3: 67. 14. Ibid., p. 347. 34. Ibid., 3:67. 15. Gale, Thomas Crawford, p. 189. 35. Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York, 2004), p. 182. SUMMER 2013 THE CAPITOL DOME 23