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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.
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.