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Camera location37° 48′ 27.79″ N, 122° 28′ 30.44″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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English: Joseph Strauss (chief designer of the Golden Gate Bridge) Memorial, San Francisco, California. Artist: Frederick William Schweigardt (1885–1948)

A plaque on the base of the statue reads: 

1870 JOSEPH B. STRAUSS 1938
"THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BRIDGE"
HERE AT THE GOLDEN GATE IS THE
ETERNAL RAINBOW THAT HE CONCEIVED
AND SET TO FORM A PROMISE INDEED
THAT THE RACE OF MAN SHALL
ENDURE UNTO THE AGES.
CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
1929 - 1937
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number CA000982
Date Taken on 22 March 2010
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Author Steven Pavlov
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