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Jose Marti Statue

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Description: A view of a statue of Jose Marti with Hotel Inglaterra and Hotel Telegrafo in the background Havanna, Cuba.
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Marquis de Lafayette Monument

Date: 1921
Description: Daniel Chester French's statue commemorating the American Revolutionary War general, Marquis de Lafayette. Installed circa, 1921, the bronze stands in fro...
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Ely Park Soldiers Monument

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Description: Tall cylindrical Civil War memorial with multiple sculptures in Ely Square in downtown. A wrought iron fence surrounds the monument, trees dot the square a...
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Southern Poets' Monument

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Description: Small monument to southern poets surrounded by benches in a median park on Greene Street. Trees line the street and large stone buildings are in the backgr...
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Rose Garden Gazebo

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Description: A classical-style stone gazebo with a sculpture on a pedestal at the entrance to a rose garden.
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New York Botanical Gardens

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Description: Fountain of Life in front of Mertz library at the New York Botanical Gardens.
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Columbia University

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Description: The Alma Mater statue in front of the main library. Both the building and statue have features of the Classical style, including a laurel wreath and decora...
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A New Pope is Born

Date: 03 12 1939
Description: Journalist Cecil Brown, who was reporting for CBS from Rome, Italy, took this picture of the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican awaiting the coron...
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Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall

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Description: View of Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall.
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Where the Bey Holds Court

Date: 1929
Description: The ornate entrance to the building where the bey (chieftain) holds court in Bardo, Tunis. Carved stone lions are perched on both side of the staircase. Co...
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: The statue "Wisconsin" in midair being raised from the scaffold on the roof of the West Wing up to the dome. Men are standing on the balcony on the right.
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: A group of men look on as the statue "Wisconsin" is lifted from the crate using ropes and pulleys. Ropes are wrapped around the statue and the statue's rig...
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Taliesin

Date: 08 2013
Description: View from below looking up at a plaster sculpture of a nude woman rising out of an abstract column. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the sculpture and placed it...

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