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2023.055.3.0260Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is a view overlooking the Trafalgar Square in London. Above the image "T305 (Star)" is printed, below the image "3086T Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument, London, England." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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THE NELSON MONUMENT AND TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND
Some have called this the finest site in England, with its lofty memorial to England's one-time savior, Admiral Lord Nelson, commemorating his great vicotry at Trafalgar over the French and Spanish ships of Napoleon's armada. This monument was erected in 1843, a massive granite Corinthian column, 145 feet high, surmounted by a statue of Nelson 15 feet tall. The bas-reliefts on the pedestal were cast of bronze from the metal of capured French cannon. Teh preincipal one shows the deathof Nelson at Trafalgar, Oct. 22, 1805. Below it is incribed: "England expects every man to do his duty." The four colossal bronze lions were modeled by Sir Edwin Landseer.
That church at the right is St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, so named because of the open fields that originally surrounded it. Nell Gwyn is buried in its yard. Directly across the Square from us, on its north side, we see the famous National Gallery, housing one of the most wonderful art collections in the world. The building was erected in 18932-38, and contains some 2,400 priceless paintings. Rapheal, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Coreggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrant, Titain, Velasquez, and other magic names are signed to the art treasures collected there.
Several famous streets of London flow into Trafalgar Square: - Whitehall, leading form Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, Pall Mall, coming from St. James' Palace, and the Strand and Fleet Street, forming the great thorooughfare leading, at our right, to St. Paul's, the Bank of England, and the Tower. It is the Strand, one of London's busiest streets, across which we are looking at the Nelson monument. As its name suggests, it was once on teh bank of the Thames, though now a block away.
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