National Museum of American History
The Grand "Washington Monument" Procession by John L. Magee and James S. Baillie
Washington, George · 1847
This hand-colored print commemorates the October 19, 1847, parade celebrating the placing of the cornerstone for New York City‘s Washington Monument on Hamilton Square (between Third and Fifth Avenues and Sixty-Sixth and Sixty-Ninth Streets). For lack of funds, the monument was never completed.
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