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File:Thorfinn Karlsefni 1918.jpg

Summary

Artist Einar Jónsson; Smallbones
Title
English: Thorfinn Karlsefni
Description
English: Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic explorer who circa 1010 AD led an attempt to settle Vínland with three ships and 160 settlers. Thorfinn's wife gave birth to a boy in Vínland, the first child of European descent known to have been born in the New World. In 1918, Einar Jónsson, an Icelandic sculptor, created a statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni which was placed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Fairmount Park, along Kelly Drive, near the Boathouses. There is another casting of the statue in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Date 1915-1918. Dedicated 1920.
Source/Photographer Own work
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Date and time of data generation 10:09, 6 June 2011
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File change date and time 15:38, 7 June 2011
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Date and time of digitizing 10:09, 6 June 2011
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Flash Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression
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