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A Statue that Lasted Six Weeks -- 1909

"Defeat of Slander" was erected as election propaganda in Times Square by Tammany Hall. After Tammany's candidates lost the election workmen smashed the plaster statue.

-- New York Times

 

Photographed by Robert Louis Bracklow,

collection of the New-York Historical Society

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Uploaded on May 4, 2023
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