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2022 Statue of James Marion Sims Removed from Central Park to Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn 8756

2022 The Statue of James Marion Sims - January 25th 1813 – November 13th 1883 - an American physician in the field of surgery known as the - father of gynecology - sculpture consists of a nearly 9 foot tall image of standing Sims on a pedestal and supporting piers on either side with roundels containing descriptions - The figure of Sims is cast in bronze and was removed from Central Park in 2018 - relocated to Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn where he is buried because of his experimental surgeries without anesthesia on enslaved women

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Uploaded on June 11, 2022
Taken on June 11, 2022