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53 photos and 2 illustrations tagged batterypark, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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• manhattan
• lowermanhattan
• newyorkcity
• environmentalprotectionagency
• documerica
• usnationalarchives
• libraryofcongress
• castleclinton
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• newyorkharbor
• newyork
• thebattery
• nyc
• ny
• hudsonriver
• statenislandferry
• ship
• newyorkpubliclibrary
• statenislandferryterminal
• aerialphotography
• aerialphotograph
• aerialphoto
• 1917
• battery

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• U.S. National Archives 19 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 17 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 10 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 4 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration

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Preacher Draws Lunchtime Crowd in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park 05/1973

from U.S. National Archives

• JJ PT said:

  Great shot

Nanni Safe (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Menotti Nanni of Chicago, Illinois books.google.com/books?id=kkw-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA551&l... The patent: patents.google.com/patent/US1166145A

• B-59 said:

  "To prove that his invention is unsinkable, Menotti Nanni, a Chicago inventor, locked himself into a 6,000 pound safe which was thrown over board in view of thousands at Battery Park yesterday afternoon. After being submerged in thirty-five feet of water for nearly a minute, the safe appeared on the surface and the inventor was released." New-York tribune., June 03, 1918, Page 6, col. 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1918-06-03/ed-...

• Karen (LOC P&P) said:

  Richard Norton and B-59: Thanks for tracking down information about this photograph. We'll include some of it in the record next time we update.

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101499815 www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/27364666881/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/27364668221/

Baron Moncheur, F.R. Coudert, W.D. Robbins (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Dean Z said:

  Similar image exists at NARA (catalog.archives.gov/id/26431708)
  
  Belgian Mission in New York. Arrival of visiting delegates at the Battery, New York. Left to right: Baron Moncheur, head of the Belgian Mission; W.D. Robbins, reception committee Frederick R. Coudert, reception committee.

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Dean Z, thanks for the identifications in this photo and the other similar ones, we'll add them to the catalog record.

• Richard Norton said:

  Ludovic Moncheur (1857-1940)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1874008
  Warren Delano Robbins (1885-1935)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970162
  Frederic René Coudert II (1871-1955)
  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63198411