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Plazas
The casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco
St. Peter’s Cathedral and Colonade, Rome, Italy
Plaza at Cervantes, Lepanto, Island of Luzon, Philippines
London. Trafalgar Square
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Creation Date
1911
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Language
English
Queen’s Square, Sydney, N. S. W.
Wynyard Square, Sydney, N. S. W.
Queen Victoria Markets, Sydney, N. S. W.
Alger-Place du Gouvernement
Postcard showing a panoramic view of an open city plaza surrounded by buildings. Charles C. Myers notes that it is the ball ground and athletic area of Algiers, Algeria.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Showing one of the open places or game grounds for all kinds of games and amusement also showing the steep hillside that the hill is built on.”
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Santiago, Plaza de Armas con vista al Cerro Santa Lucia
Postcard showing the Plaza de Armas and Santa Lucia Hill in Santiago, Chile.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Looking across the Plaza des Armes we here see part of the Hotel de France and also the cathedral, while in the distant we see one of the principal features of Santiago which is San Lucia Hill, this hill rises to a height of 500 ft from the heart of the city. On this hill in 1540 Pedro Valdavia established his stronghold and made it a fort and around the base of this hill he founded the present city, laying it out in squares as it still remains about 1800 this fort was converted into a park and improved as such and it now is one of the most beautiful and remarkable places of the kind in existence. The whole hill presents one mass, almost bewildering”
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Santiago, Plaza Vicuña Mackenna con Cerro Santa Lucia
Postcard showing Plaza Vicuña Mackenna and Santa Lucia Hill in Santiago, Chile. Charles C. Myers gives information about Santa Lucia Hill, the park, and the surrounding area.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “…of grottoes, terraces, stairways, stucco work of all kinds planted with luxuriant growth of semi-tropical vegitation through with…”
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Our Japanese village
In a crowded outdoor scene, possibly in “Times” Square, Japanese paper lanterns are hanging and almost everyone is wearing Japanese-style clothing. Among the porters, street vendors, and street railroad conductors are depicted Jay “Gould,” H. O. “Thompson,” Charles A. “Dana,” Whitelaw “Reid,” Benjamin F. Butler, “Bergh,” Elizabeth Cady “Stanton,” Joseph “Pulitzer,” Samuel J. “Tilden,” Thomas De Witt “Talmage,” William M. “Evarts,” and “Grace, Murray, [and] Barrett,” and Marcus “Daly,” along with Puck holding his lithographic pencil.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1886-01-13