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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.

Thank you for this information! We'll correct the name in the source data and reload the description.

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-...)

Thanks Dean Z, we'll add that info to the catalog record.

Same time as -

trove.nla.gov.au/work/247413436 - Trove link to pic at PHM Kind of reverse view...taken at about the same time...but not the same occasion...there are some differences...looks to be about the same number of telephone lines up on the pole at the SE cnr Pitt/Moore Sts www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2362681483/ trove.nla.gov.au/work/190055473 - it's not quite the same angle, but this [1910] NLA Fairfax pic is a good 'later' view...

EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Government Savings Bank completed)... LATEST DATE: 1906 (work on Challis House commenced)... For future reference LEFT SIDE: BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, NE cnr George St/Martin Place...built 1901-04...completed early 1904 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14598460 - SMH 9th February, 1904...item on the recently completed Bank of Australasia trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163986631 - Sydney Mail, 9th March, 1904...pic of the Bank of Australasia VACANT SITE...later occupied by Challis House...built 1906-07 MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK BUILDING, NW cnr Pitt St/Martin Place, built 1893-94...sold in 1914 to the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company of Sydney trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71212046 - Australian Town & Country Journal, 31st March, 1894...pic of the principal keystone laying ceremony for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York Building... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13961510 - SMH, 27th July, 1894...report on the laying of the final stone... THE CITIZENS' LIFE ASSURANCE BUILDING, NW cnr Castlereagh St/Martin Place, was evidently a rebuild of an earlier building...the rebuild was completed 1899 In 1907 the Citizens' Life Assurance Company amalgamated with the Mutual Life Assurance Company...afterwards the Mutual Life & Citizens' Assurance Company...in 1937 the MLC Building (as it was then known), at the corner of Castlereagh St/Martin Place was demolished and replaced by a new MLC Building, which still stands... trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127375211 - Sunday Times, 24th September, 1899...sketch of the recently completed Citizens' Life Assurance Building RIGHT SIDE: GPO SE corner of Pitt St/Moore Sts...Commonwealth Bank Building built here 1915-16...the building seen in this pic (originally a warehouse, later offices) was demolished in ?April/May 1913...trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15419883 GIBBS CHAMBERS, 7 Moore St...built 1902... THE 'OLD' GOVERNMENT SAVINGS BANK OF NSW BUILDING...the tall building seen here on the rhs near Castlereagh St...built 1904-05...it was sold in 1928 after the GSB moved to their palatial new building further up Martin Place, between Castlereagh and Elizabeth Sts...the old GSB Building was purchased by the Australia Hotel (located just around the corner in Castlereagh St), who then demolished it and built an extension which fronted Martin Place... trove.nla.gov.au/work/190120478 - 1928 NLA Fairfax pic of the 'old' Government Savings Bank Building... CASTLEREAGH ST (L-R): FITZ-EVAN CHAMBERS, 28 Castlereagh St, completed 1883 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64034417 BERESFORD CHAMBERS, 30 Castlereagh St AUSTRALIAN STAR OFFICES, Castlereagh St...seen here pre 1910 Sun merger/takeover. The Australian Star was published from 1887-1909...in 1910 it merged with the Sunday Sun (published from 1903-1910)...and both newspapers continued as the Sun...the Sun logo appeared on the building... trove.nla.gov.au/work/189730518 - the former Australian Star offices were rebuilt in 1918...as the Sun Building...which was the home of the Sydney Sun until the new Sun building was completed a few doors to the right in 1929... One notable absentee is the Commercial Travellers' Club Building, which was built on the SW corner of Castlereagh/Moore Sts in 1908-09...at the time it was one of Sydney's tallest buildings...it survived until the early 1970s when..along with the Australia Hotel...it was demolished to make way for the MLC Centre... trove.nla.gov.au/work/190134675 - NLA Fairfax pic of the Commercial Travellers' Club Building

This looks like Mack Tripp (standing).

I wonder why there is a map of the Black Sea region in the background???

Pixel Wrangler Wow, I'd say you're correct...

Dave C. I thought the same thing...

These are Camellias, not Azaleas. This is a meeting of the Men's Camellia Club. c. 1945. The growing and grafting of camellias was a very popular activity in Pensacola with thousands of growers participating in the annual Camellia Flower Show.