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Mermaid sculpture in Norfolk, the largest city in what's called "Tidewater Virginia" on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean (LOC)

Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.

 

Mermaid sculpture in Norfolk, the largest city in what's called "Tidewater Virginia" on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean

 

2019-11-14.

 

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

 

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Sculptor Kevin Gallup mass-produced 130 fiberglass mermaid castings for artists to decorate, and business leaders from Norfolk and beyond "adopted" mermaids. Here is one.

Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2019; (DLC/PP-2019:069).

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

 

Subjects:

America--Tidewater Virginia--Norfolk mermaid sculptures--Kevin Gallup

United States--Virginia--Norfolk.

 

Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.61049

 

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 61049

 

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Uploaded on March 28, 2025
Taken sometime in 2019