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A statue of military historian Samuel Eliot Morison by Penelope Jencks is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Statue of Samuel Eliot Morison
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Back Bay

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Commonwealth Avenue
02199 Boston, Back Bay
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