Balto Siberian Husky sled dog

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Balto Siberian Husky sled dog. on the east park drive just after the zoo on our right, looking east toward 5th avenue.

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Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) was a Siberian Husky sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Nenana, Alaska, to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. The run is commemorated by the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Balto was named after the Sami explorer and adventurer Samuel Balto. Balto died at the age of 14.

The statue of Balto by Frederick George Richard Roth (1872 – 1944) was unveiled on December 17, 1925. The statue is bronze, and is set on a large granite rock near the entrance of Central Park at East 67th Street, by the Tisch Children's Zoo.

A plaque on the front is engraved with seven sled dogs running through a blizzard, and the following words: Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxins 660 miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the Winter of 1925. ENDURANCE FIDELITY INTELLIGENCE

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

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The Oscar Mayer "Wienermobile" Driving up Sixth Avenue. Caught just in front of Macy's at 34th street.

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"Wienermobile" is the name for a series of automobiles shaped like a hot dog on a bun which are used to promote and advertise Oscar Mayer products. The first version was created in 1936 by Oscar Mayer's nephew, Carl G. Mayer, and variants are still used by the Oscar Mayer company today. Drivers of the Wienermobiles are known as Hotdoggers and often hand out toy whistles shaped as replicas of the Wienermobile, known as Wienerwhistles.

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt Grand Central Terminal

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Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt by Ernst Plassman created in 1869 was moved to its current location, the southern facade of Grand Central Terminal in 1913. The 8-foot, 6-inch-tall, bronze originally stood  1869-1913 at the Hudson River Railroad Freight Depot.

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In 1869, Vanderbilt directed the New York and Harlem Railroad to begin construction of the Grand Central Depot on 42nd Street in Manhattan. It was finished in 1871, and served as his lines' terminus in New York. He sank the tracks on 4th Avenue in a cut that later became a tunnel, and 4th Avenue became Park Avenue. The depot was replaced by Grand Central Terminal in 1913.

Daylilies Hemerocallis Daylily

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Daylilies Hemerocallis Daylily. Daylilies at the Northeast corner of Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue and 26th street, Manhattan, New york City 07/03/13.

Daylilies are perennial plants. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) "day" and καλός (kalos) "beautiful". This name alludes to the flowers which typically last no more than 24 hours.

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Ivory Skull

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Ivory Skull in a 5th avenue store window. This image was taken through the glass display window at 545 5th avenue and 45th street. Fresh today :)

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The Battle of Gettysburg Day 2

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Title: The battle of Gettysburg Date Created/Published: N.Y. : Published by Thomas Kelly, 264 Third Avenue, between 22nd & 23rd St., c1867 (N.Y. : Printed by Wm. C. Robertson, 59 Cedar St.) Medium: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.

Summary: Print showing Union troops advancing from the right during fighting at the battle of Gettysburg. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-03235 (digital file from original print, color) LC-DIG-pga-02506 (digital file from original print. b&w) LC-USZ62-13198 (b&w film copy neg. of color impression)

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Call Number: PGA - Robertson (Wm. C.)--Battle of Gettysburg (D size) [P&P] PGA - Robertson (Wm. C.)--Battle of Gettysburg Another impression, b&w. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Notes: Title from item. Caption continues: Respectfully dedicated to the Soldiers of the United States. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by Thomas Kelly in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the southern District of N. York. Library has two impressions, one hand-colored and one b&w. Copyright statement taken from b&w impression. Tear in upper right corner of b&w impression with minor loss to image.

Throughout the evening of July 1 and morning of July 2, most of the remaining infantry of both armies arrived on the field, including the Union II, III, V, VI, and XII Corps. Longstreet's third division, commanded by Maj. Gen. George Pickett, had begun the march from Chambersburg early in the morning; it did not arrive until late on July 2. The Union line ran from Culp's Hill southeast of the town, northwest to Cemetery Hill just south of town, then south for nearly two miles along Cemetery Ridge, terminating just north of Little Round Top.

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Battle of Gettysburg Pickett's Charge

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Title: Battle of Gettysburg. Date Created/Published: c1887 May 16. Medium: 1 print. Summary: Print from the painting called Hancock at Gettysbug by Thure de Thulstrup. Shows Major General George Hancock leading the attack popularly known as "Pickett's Charge."

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-04033 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC4-1178 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-8379 (b&w film copy neg.) LC -USZC2-498 (color film copy slide)

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Call Number: PGA - Prang--Battle of Gettysburg (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: G12949 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Prang, (L.) & Co.

Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.

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