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Description
A Sphinx snow sculpture at the Western Avenue home of Augusta businessman and publisher William Howard Gannett.
Gannett had a radio transmitter embedded in the Sphinx. It told visitors they could not pass until they answered a riddle. It asked what creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening.
Gannett was a winter sports enthusiast and planned to use photos of the sculpture, created by M. Henneman, to promote the 1924 Winter Carnival.
About This Item
- Title: Snow sculpture, Augusta, ca. 1924
- Creation Date: circa 1924
- Subject Date: circa 1924
- Location: Augusta, Kennebec County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 2010, OS Box 2, Scrapbook 2 (SB2), p147
- Collection: Guy Gannett Foundation collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Entertainment
- Gannett, William Howard--1854-1948
- Ice sculpture--Maine--Augusta
- Public sculpture--Maine--Augusta
- Snow--Maine--Augusta
- Sphinxes--Maine--Augusta
- Winter carnivals--Maine--Augusta
- Winter sports--Maine--Augusta
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