Lafayette statue

Image represented is one of a related set (PARK 0288), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images in different sizes. 0288 inscription: "Lafayette statue, Prospect Park near 9th Street, gift of Henry Harteau, 1819-1895, descendant of a French Huguenot family who left $30,000 for a statue of Lafayette. Henry Harteau was a member of the Board of Education, Brooklyn, 1852, and Park Commissioner, 1886. This statue is the work of Daniel Chester French ... Unveiled, May 10, 1917, by Marshall Jolfe of France. Raymond Vail Ingersoll, Park Commissioner, Brooklyn, Chairman."