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Marquis de Lafayette Statue
Marquis de Lafayette Statue
Marquis de Lafayette Statue

Changing New York; Union Square

Fourth Avenue between East 15th and 16th Streets. The Lafayette Statue at Union Square with the discount department store, S. Klein, the Union Square Savings Bank and the tower of the Consolidated Edison Building in the background.

IMAGE DATE1936
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Statue of the Marquis de Lafayette, Union Square, March 20, 1936.

S. Klein, a discount department store, the Union Square Savings Bank and the tower of the Consolidated Edison Building are visible in the background.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s bronze sculpture, a gift from prominent French residents, was installed in Union Square on September 6, 1876.

Bartholdi is best known for another iconic, French-funded civic sculpture: the Statue of Liberty.

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