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High Bridge Landing. Over Harlem River. Croton Aqueduct.
View in Central Park, New York. This is the 7th Regiment Memorial, dedicated in June, 1874. It stands at West Drive @69th St. The sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward stands before his work. It honors the 58 men of New York’s Seventh Regiment who died in the Civil War.
Central Park Boat House, No. 60. This view is from the John Meigs Collection, Washington DC. Meigs purchased these views in the 1860s and annotated his purchase: “Bo’t N.Y. City-Sep. 2, 1865-25 cts.”