Identifier: scenesofmodernne00durs (find matches)
Title: Scenes of modern New York.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC L.H. Nelson Company
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Publisher: Portland, Me. : L.H. Nelson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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K was presented to the city by the late Khedive of Egypt in 1877. It 8th A venue. It was made in Italy and erected to commemorate the -tooth anniversary is sixth in size of the famous Egyptian obelisks. The entire expense of its removal of the discovery of the American continent. and erection on its present site near the Metropolitan Museum was borne by the late William H. Vanderbilt. THE BARTHOLIN STATUE stands upon Bedloes Island, almost two miles south-east of the Battery. This colossal figure, representing Liberty Enlightening theWorld was presented to the people of America by the great French sculptor, AugusteBartholdi. It was erected in 1883. The torch is 300 feet above the sea. THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. At 89th Street stands a purewhite marble monument erected to the memory of the citizens of New York who tookpart in the Civil War. It is a circular structure, with a peristyle of twelve Corin-thian columns, 35 feet high. Built by the city at a cost of $250,000, in 1902.
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