Who is this man on a bench and where is this statue located? Might be tough. Send us your guess – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s phot0, “Another old picture,” was the old Charleston Orphan House, which Summerville resident Daniel Prohaska reminded us was the first public orphanage in the United States. “The statue is one of William Pitt the Elder (1708–1778), first Earl of Chatham, British Secretary of State and then Prime Minister of Great Britain, who was largely responsible for the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1765. It stood in front of the Orphan House from 1808 to 1881. It has had many homes, including the Charleston Museum for a time, and is today inside the restored Charleston County Judicial Center at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets.”
Others who correctly identified the picture – which was taken in 1865 – were Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Jean Prothro, Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, all of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and Curtis Joyner and Judy Hines, both of Charleston.
>> Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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Albert Einstein on a bench
Thanks. But Mark Twain.