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Bennington Battle Monument, Bennington, Vermont, U.S.A
Bennington battle monument - Print, Library of Congress collection
Bennington battle monument - Print, Library of Congress collection
Battle monument, Bennington, Vt.
Battle monument, Bennington, Vt
Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777.
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Panoramic map of Bennington, Vt. 1887.
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The Bennington Battle Monument, completed in 1889 in Bennington, Vermont
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The 301-foot-high obelisk commemorates the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War. In that battle, on August 17, 1777, Brigadier General John Stark and 1,400 New Hampshiremen, aided by Colonel Seth Warner of Vermont and others, defeated two detachments of General John Burgoyne's British Army, who were seeking to capture a store of weapons and food. The statue before the monument depicts Colonel Warner.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)
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