Lincoln Memorial Commission report : message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Lincoln Memorial Commission, and its recommendations, upon the location, plan, and design for a memorial, in the city of Washington, to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, in accordance with the act approved February 9, 1911
An official 1913 government report to Congress from the Lincoln Memorial Commission, transmitted by President Taft, presenting competing site and design proposals by architects Henry Bacon and John Russell Pope for a Washington memorial to Lincoln. The plates combine graphite perspective renderings of colonnaded interiors and porticoes with ruled elevation drawings and soft photogravure landscape views, offering Ionic column studies, inscription panels, seated statue placement, and small scale figures for architectural collage.
