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Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Memorial Wall
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LOCATION |
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North America |
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Washington D.C. |
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National Mall/Memorial Parks (Constitution Ave. NW)
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Monuments, decorations, furnishings, graphics
Monuments and works of art
Other architectural structures
Mausoleums, memorials, tombs
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1980 - 1981
project winner of competition
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1982 - 1982 |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Thomas F. Morrissey, Between the Lines. Photographs from the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2000 |
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| Brent K. Ashabranner, Their Names to Live. What the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Means to America, Twenty-first Century Press, Brookfield /CT) 1998 |
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| Kristin Ann Hass, Carried to the Wall. American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, University of California Press, Berkeley 1998 |
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| Brent K. Ashabranner, Always to Remember. The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Putnam, New York 1989 |
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| Michael Katakis, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Crown, New York 1988 |
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| Sal Lopes, The Wall. Images and Offerings from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Collins, New York 1987 |
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| Jan C. Scruggs, Joel L. Swerdlow, To Heal a Nation. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harper & Row, New York 1985 |
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