BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Madison Square Park

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MADSQP_180816_005.JPG: That the memory of a daring and sagacious commander and gentle great souled man whose life from childhood was given to his country but who served her supremely in the war for the Union MDCCCLXI - MDCCCLXV may be preserved and honored, and that they who come after him and who will owe him so much may see him as he was seen by friend and foe, his countrymen have set up this monument AD MDCCCLXXXI
2. MADSQP_180816_023.JPG: David Glasgow Farragut
3. MADSQP_180816_027.JPG: Augustus Saint Gaudens * Sculptor Stanford White * Architect
4. MADSQP_180816_038.JPG: Born near Knoxville, Tennessee July V, MDCCCI Mid-shipman MDCCCX Battle of Essex and Phoebe March XXVIII, MDCCCXIV Lieutenant MDCCCXXV Commander MDCCCXLI Captain MDCCCLV Battle of New Orleans April XXV, MDCCCLXII Rear Admiral MDCCCLXII Battle of Mobile Bay August V, MDCCCLXIV Vice Admiral December XXIII, MDCCCLXIV First Admiral of the United States of America July XXVI, MDCCCLXVI Died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire August XIV, MDCCCLXX
5. MADSQP_180816_069.JPG: Emily Dickinson To Make a Prairie To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
6. MADSQP_180816_074.JPG: What's This?
7. MADSQP_180816_080.JPG: Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace 1917-18
8. MADSQP_180816_083.JPG: Millions of veterans have marched past this spot, carrying with them their pride, their scars and their memories, and well as the spirits of those who never came home.
9. MADSQP_180816_084.JPG: 1918: American troops returning from Europe after the war were greeted with an official reception in Madison Square Park. 1924: The 125' Eternal Light Flagstaff was dedicated as a memorial on Armistice Day, November 11. 1973: The flagstaff was originally made with Oregon pine. After falling into disrepair, it was removed from the Park. 1976: The memorial was replaced with a steel flagpole.
10. MADSQP_180816_090.JPG: Throughout the 1800s, New Yorkers commemorated Evacuation Day, marking the departure of the British Army at the end of the American Revolution (Nov 25, 1783). Following the Civil War, massive parades on Fifth Avenue celebrated Decoration Day (Memorial Day).
11. MADSQP_180816_122.JPG: B. Haley 46 Rue de Courcelles Paris 8 France
12. MADSQP_180816_126.JPG: 1836 1936 This tree from the Virginia estate of Former President James Madison presented to the city of New York by the Fifth Avenue Association, Inc. to commemorate the first centennial of the opening of Madison Avenue.
13. MADSQP_180816_133.JPG: Chogyam Trungpa A flower is always happy A flower is always happy because it is beautiful Bees sing their song of loneliness and weep A waterfall is busy hurrying to the ocean A poet is blown by the wind. A friend without inside or outside And a rock that is not happy or sad Are watching the winter crescent moon Suffering from the bitter wind.
14. MADSQP_180816_160.JPG: Police Officer Moira Ann Smith Playground
15. MADSQP_180816_172.JPG: Roscoe Conkling Roscoe Conkling From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829 – April 18, 1888) was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party, the first Republican senator from New York to be elected for three terms, and the last person to turn down a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had already been confirmed to the post by the U.S. Senate. While in the House, Representative Conkling served as body guard for Representative Thaddeus Stevens, a sharp-tongued anti slavery representative, and fully supported the Republican War effort. Conkling, who was temperate and detested tobacco, was known for being a body builder through regularly exercising and boxing. Conkling was elected to the Senate in 1867 as a leading Radical, who supported the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction. As leader of the Stalwarts, Conkling controlled patronage at the New York Customs House. Although Senator Conkling was supported by President Ulysses S. Grant, Conkling did not support Grant's Civil Service Commission reform initiative. Conkling also refused to accept Grant's nomination of him as Chief Justice of the United States, believing his talents belonged in the Senate. The control over patronage led to a bitter conflict between Senator Conkling and President Rutherford B. Hayes. Conkling also opposed Hayes's appointment of William M. Evarts as Secretary of State. Conkling publicly led opposition to President Hayes's attempt to impose Civil Service Reform on the New York Customs House. In 1880, Conkling supported Ulysses S. Grant for President; however, James A. Garfield was nominated and elected President. Conkling's conflict with President Garfield over New York Customs House patronage led to his resignation from the Senate in May 1881. After Garfield's assassination in 1881, Vice President Chester A. Arthur became President. When President Arthur offered his friend Conkling an associate justiceship on the Supreme Court, Conkling accepted the offer and was approved by the Senate. However, Conkling later changed his mind and refused to serve, the last person (as of 2017) to have done so. He practiced law in New York until his death in 1888.
16. MADSQP_180816_194.JPG: William H. Seward From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as Governor of New York and United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a dominant figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the American Civil War. Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, where his father was a farmer and owned slaves. He was educated as a lawyer and moved to the Central New York town of Auburn. Seward was elected to the New York State Senate in 1830 as an Anti-Mason. Four years later, he became the gubernatorial nominee of the Whig Party. Though he was not successful in that race, Seward was elected governor in 1838 and won a second two-year term in 1840. During this period, he signed several laws that advanced the rights and opportunities for black residents, as well as guaranteeing fugitive slaves jury trials in the state. The legislation protected abolitionists, and he used his position to intervene in cases of freed black people who were enslaved in the South. After many years of practicing law in Auburn, he was finally elected by the state legislature to the U.S. Senate in 1849. Seward's strong stances and provocative words against slavery brought him hatred in the South. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1855, and soon joined the nascent Republican Party, becoming one of its leading figures. As the 1860 presidential election approached, he was regarded as the leading candidate for the Republican nomination. Several factors, including attitudes to his vocal opposition to slavery, his support for immigrants and Catholics, and his association with editor and political boss Thurlow Weed, worked against him and Abraham Lincoln secured the presidential nomination. Although devastated by his loss, he campaigned for Lincoln, who was elected and appointed him Secretary of State. Seward did his best to stop the southern states from seceding; once that failed, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Union cause. His firm stance against foreign intervention in the Civil War helped deter the United Kingdom and France from entering the conflict and possibly gaining the independence of the Confederate States. He was one of the targets of the 1865 assassination plot that killed Lincoln, and was seriously wounded by conspirator Lewis Powell. Seward remained loyally at his post through the presidency of Andrew Johnson, during which he negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867 and supported Johnson during his impeachment. His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as "one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints."
Wikipedia Description: Madison Square
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States. The focus of the square is Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre (2.5-hectare) public park, which is bounded on the east by Madison Avenue (which starts at the park's southeast corner at 23rd Street); on the south by 23rd Street; on the north by 26th Street; and on the west by Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they cross.

The park and the square are at the northern (uptown) end of the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan. The neighborhood to the north and west of the park is NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park") and to the north and east is Rose Hill.

Madison Square is probably best known around the world for providing the name of Madison Square Garden, a sports arena and its successor which were located just northeast of the park for 47 years, until 1925. The current Madison Square Garden, the fourth such building, is not in the area. Notable buildings around Madison Square include the Flatiron Building, the Toy Center, the New York Life Building, the New York Merchandise Mart, the Appellate Division Courthouse, the Met Life Tower, and One Madison Park, a 50-story condominium tower.
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