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This is overlooking Morningside Park at 116th Street and Morningside Drive in Manhattan. The proper spelling of Carl's surname is Schurz. Here is the NYC Parks Department description of the monument. The monument was dedicated in 1913. The view is looking east toward southern and central Harlem and beyond. The President's House for Columbia University is behind us to the left. In 1968 The Who posed for the cover of their album, The Kids Are Alright, in front of the relief on the left.

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My pleasure! I walk through that little plaza every day on the way to and from work.

The Carl Schurz Monument in Morningside Park was unveiled on Saturday May 10, 1913 in a ceremony attended by Count von Bernstorff the German Ambassador, New York Mayor Gaynor and others. New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]), 11 May 1913. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1913-05-11/ed-...)

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James Marion Baker (1861–1940) was a South Carolina attorney who became assistant Senate librarian in 1883 and, twenty years later, managed to become Secretary of the Senate, a post he then held from 1913 to 1919. James Baker page at the U.S. Senate website.

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Post Master General during the Wilson Administration -- and a controversial one at that. Who knew there could be a controversial Post Master General? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_S._Burleson

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