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The Grand "Washington Monument" Procession by John L. Magee and James S. Baillie

Washington, George

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.

Date

1847

Type

lithograph

Medium

paper (overall material)

Department

NMAH

Institution

National Museum of American History

Object number

nmah_324873

Credit

Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection