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Waving Girl and Dog
Savannah, GA
The Waving Girl and Dog statue depicts Florence Martus who waved at arriving and departing ships at the Savannah River port from 1887-1931. This 9-foot-tall, bronze statue was created by Felix De Weldon and installed in 1972. For more, see this website. [map]

Radium Girl
Ottawa, IL
 Madonna of the Trail
Vandalia, IL
The bronze Radium Girl sculpture is a memorial to the thousands of girls that worked at the Radium Dial Company factory in Ottawa during the 1920s and 1930s. They painted the glow-in-the-dark wristwatch dials with a toxic radium material and developed cancer and other diseases. The statue depicts a girl holding a paintbrush and a wilted tulip. The sculpture was created by William Piller and installed in 2011. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

The Madonna of the Trail sculpture was created by August Leimbach and installed in 1928. It was carved from a pink algonite stone. At some point, the monument was painted a darker red. By 2021, it was painted white. The 10-foot-tall woman and her two children are installed on a 6-foot-tall base. [map]

Quintessential Engineer
Urbana, IL
 Coffee Pot Lady
Streator, IL
The bronze Quintessential Engineer sculpture was created by Julie Rotblatt Amrany of the Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt Amrany. It was installed here at the University of Illinois in 2017. The sculpture of "Quinn" is meant to depict and inspire women in the engineering field. For more, see this website. [map]

This bronze Coffee Pot Lady sculpture was installed at the Santa Fe Railroad Station in 2006. It was produced by Taylor Studios as a tribute to the women that greeted soldiers at the train station that were passing through Streator during World War II. They provided them with sandwiches and coffee. [map]

Maud Powell
Peru, IL
Maud Powell was a famous violinist who was born in Peru. This eight-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created by Joseph Heyd and installed in 1995. For more, see this website. [map]

Dellora Norris
St. Charles, IL
 Emmett Till's Mother
Summit, IL
This bronze sculpture of Dellora Norris was created by Ray Kobald and installed by 2006. Norris was an heir to the Texaco Oil, a philanthropist, and civic club participant in St. Charles. She gifted several buildings to the city including the St. Charles Municipal Building where this sculpture is installed. For more, see this website. [map]

This bronze sculpture of Emmett Till's Mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, was installed in front of Argo Community High School in 2023. She was a student at the school. The scupture was designed by Sonja Henderson. For more, see this website. [map]

Statue of the Republic
Chicago, IL
This 24-foot-tall, gilded bronze sculpture of the Statue of the Republic was created by Daniel Chester French and installed in 1918. It was modeled after the temporary, 65-foot-tall statue which was created by French and installed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. For more, see this website. [map]

Dorothy and Toto
Bloomington, IL
This wood-carved Dorothy and Toto sculpture is located in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. It was created in 2018 from a diseased tree by Bill Baker of Top Notch Chainsaw Carving. The sculpture is at the grave of Dorothy Louise Gage who died in 1898 when she was 5 months old. L. Frank Baum, who wrote "The Wizard of Oz," named the character after her. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.

More Illinois:
Lizzie Magie (Macomb)
Awaking Muse (Schaumburg)

Teacher [gone]
McPherson, KS
 Pioneer Mother
of Kansas
Liberal, KS
 Dorothy and Toto
Liberal, KS
This wood-carved Teacher statue was created by Gino Salerno in 1994. The statue was named "Miss Wickersham" after the Wickersham Elementary School which was located nearby. In 2014, the head was found to be damaged and removed. In 2018, the entire statue was gone. I don't know if there are plans to reinstall it.

The Pioneer Mother of Kansas bronze statue was designed by Wheeler Williams in the 1920s. This casting was installed in front of the Liberal Memorial Library in 1961. [map]

This statue of Dorothy and Toto is installed at Dorothy's House and the Land of Oz. The statue was created by Lee Lester and installed by 2009. Small copies of the statue were produced and sold in order to raise funds for the larger statue. [map]

Massachusetts:
Bewitched (Salem)

Waitress [gone]
Flint, MI
This Giant Waitress, aka "The Big Girl", stands on top of the sign at the Colonial Coney Island and Family Restaurant. She had been there since 1978. The statue is 13 feet tall. It was repainted sometime between 2007 and 2009. The photos in the top row are from 2006. The bottom photos are from 2011. In 2014, the restaurant closed and the statue was removed. In 2018, the statue was restored. It is now in a private collection in Davison, MI. For more, see this website.

Mary Tyler Moore
Minneapolis, MN
 Pioneer Woman
St. Paul, MN
The life-sized bronze statue of Mary Tyler Moore was installed downtown in 2002. It depicts Moore's portrayal of Mary Richards in 1970s sitcom known as the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The statue stood in nearly the exact spot where the actress threw her hat into the air during the show's opening sequence. In 2015, the statue was removed during construction. In 2017, it was reinstalled. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

The Pioneer Woman stands at the Minnesota State Fair as a tribute to Minnesota women. It was created by Gordon Shumaker and installed here in 1959. For more, see this website. [map]

More Minnesota:
Paul Bunyan's Sweetheart (Hackensack)
Virgin Mary (Millerville)

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