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Triumphal entry

USS Maine Monument at the Merchant's Gate entrance to Central Park on 59th St in Manhattan.The monument honors 290 (of a crew of 355) American officers,sailors,and marines who died in the sinking of the USS Maine naval ship at Havana Harbor in 1898.The crowning sculpture on top of the pylon is a gilded bronze statue of Columbia Triumphant (female figure) being drawn by a seashell cgchariot of hippocampi (mythological creatures with the upper body of a horse and ending with the tail of a dolphin or fish).The statue was cast in 1912 and dedicated in 1913.

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Uploaded on August 22, 2016