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Volunteer Reports

The Ingalls family participates in SOS! in a variety of ways and locales around the country. Helen Ingalls (right), an objects conservator at the National Museum of American Art, gives conservation lectures and tours to SOS! project coordinators during their training in Washington D.C., and volunteers for SOS! DC. Her sister, Zoe Ingalls (left), writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and contributed an article to the February 24, 1993, issue about the role of college students in SOS! Their mother, Mickey Ingalls (center), was a volunteer for Alabama SOS!, surveying pieces on the Montgomery Capitol grounds.

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Photo courtesy Helen Ingalls

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Photo courtesy Inventory of American Sculpture

From Saratoga Springs, N.Y., volunteers reported Daniel Chester French's Spirit of Life, commissioned in 1915 as the main feature of the Spencer Trask Memorial Fountain. Between 1915 and 1931, eight additional castings were made. SOS! volunteers have also tracked down at least one of these additional castings - now located outside the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, Vt.

The Augustus Pollack Monument is a work by artist A. Absjornsen in Wheeling, W. Va. Dated 1916, it is dedicated to Augustus Pollack, a businessman who was sympathetic to the plight of the laborers. The piece was paid for entirely by donations from laboring men and women, and its dedication was attended by tens of thousands of people representing various unions from the Ohio Valley.

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Photo courtesy IAS

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Photo courtesy Glory-June Greiff

Carved by Henry M. Saunders in 1898, portrait medallions of prominent Indiana citizens graced the exterior of Indianapolis' English Hotel until its demolition in 1949, when the medallions were sold to buyers from all over the state. Indiana SOS! has located six to date, and believe at least 18 were originally placed on the structure. This medallion of Ratliff Boon, former governor of Indiana, is now mounted on a pedestal in a square in Boonville.

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