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Changing New York; Madison Square

The New York Life Insurance Co. building is on the left and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. building is to the right.

IMAGE DATE1936
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Statue of William Henry Seward, Madison Square Park, March 20, 1936.

Seward served as the a U.S. Senator, the Governor of New York, and Lincoln's Secretary of State as part of the "Team of Rivals," responsible for the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7 million — known as "Seward's folly."

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