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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



XO. 79. THE WHITE HOUSE BUST. 



Ill the main vestibule of the White House at Washington is a bust in marble, but 

 its origin and authorship have been forgotten. 



No. 80. THE PHILADELPHIA MONUMENT. 



After the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Italian 

 residents of Philadelphia purchased a statue of Colum 

 bus there exhibited by one of their countrymen, and 

 presented it to the park commissioners, by whom it 

 was placed in Fairniount Park. 



Xo. 81. THE CHICAGO HEEALD MONUMENT. 



In 1891 the Chicago Herald sent an expedition to 

 Watling Island, and, at or near the point where Colum 

 bus is supposed to have landed, erected a column of 

 masonry, which is surmounted by a marble globe bear 

 ing an appropriate inscription: &quot;On this spot Colum 

 bus first set foot on the soil of the New World. Erected 

 by the Chicago Herald, June 9, 1891. 



Xos. 82, 83, AND 84. MONUMENT EKECTED BY ITALIAN 

 RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK. 



A beautiful statue of Columbus was erected by the 

 Italian residents of New York last summer, and un 

 veiled on the 12th of October, 1892. The design was by 

 Gaetano Russo, an Italian sculptor, and the work was 

 executed under the direction of a committee appointed 

 by the Italian Governmeut at Rome. The figure is 13 feet high, the shaft and pedestal 

 62 feet high, which, with the heavy stone foundation, gives the structure a total height 

 of 84 feet from the ground. The figure is of marble, including the pedestal. The 

 base is about 36 feet square. At the base of the circular marble shaft will be four 



STATUE ON TOP OF MONUMENT, 

 NK\V YORK CITY. 



Erected by Italian residents. 



BAS-RELIEF ON MONUMENT, NEW YORK CITY. 



Erected by Italian residents. 



BAS-RELIEF ON MONUMENT, NEW YORK CITY, 



Erected by Italian residents. 



