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Rotušės aikštė 23

Saliamonas Banaitis

Vaitiekupiai 1866 - Kaunas 1933
Lithuanian printer, educator, and banker; one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918
(Wikipedia)

Kazimieras Švažas
1996

Description

Red granite plaque with bronze portrait.

Inscription(s)

šiame name gyveno
nepriklausomybės
akto signataras
SALIAMONAS
BANAITIS
įkūręs čia pirmąją
kaune lietuvišką
spaustuvę, veikusią
1905–1918 m.

In this house lived
the signatory of the
Declaration of Independence
SALIAMONAS
BANAITIS
who founded here the first
Lithuanian printing office
in Kaunas, that had been here
from 1905-1918

Sculptor

Kazimieras Švažas, Lithuanian sculptor.

Sources & Information

Kauno apskrities viešoji biblioteka, Žymūs Kauno žmonės: atminimo įamžinimas

Locatie (N 54°53'50" - E 23°53'10") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: lt132; Photograph: 14 July 2013
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