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Commerce
About this space
Commerce, crowned with a wreath of peaceful olive leaves, holds in her right hand a model of a Yankee schooner and in her left a miniature locomotive.
• Commerce, sculptor:
John Flanagan (1865–1952)
• Above the figure of Commerce:
We taste the spices of Arabia yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth.
—Dudley North (1602–1677)