Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0375Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of statue of a man on a horse in Washington D.C. Above the image "36" is printed, below the image "32249 Scott Circle from the Daniel Webster Monument, Washington, D. C." 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:
32249
SCOTT CIRCLE FROM THE DANIEL WEBSTER MONUMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Following16th St. for five blocks N. from Lafayette Square, we find outselves virutally beyond the zone of the great public buildings centering about the Mall and Pennsylvania Ave., and in the midst of the quiet, almost rustic, beauty of one of Washington's fine old residential sections. On ever side are the homes of men who have been or still are conspicuous in the public or intellectual life of the nation. Scott Circle, on the western edge of which we are now standing, well typifies in its monuments the catholicity of the interests which are nourished by the atmosphere of Washington.
In the center we see the dignified equestrian statue of General Winfield Scott (1786-1866), the distinguished American soldier who was, for nearly half a century, an outstanding figure in the National Capital. Beyond the Scott monument stands the Memorial to Christian S. F. Hahneman (1755-1843) the founder of homeopathy, erected in 1900 by the American Institue of Homeopathy. And invisible, but close at hand, to our left, is the full length figure in bronze of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), statesman, publicist, and perhaps the foremost of all American orators, looking across the broad pavement, dappled with light and shade, to the statue of his friend and contemporary, General Scott. So it is in every direction. If we could look down Rhode Island Ave., seen at our left, we should discover in the distance the equestrian statue of General John A. Logan, in the center of Iowa Circle; similarly, if we looked down Massachusetts Ave., beyond the tree trunk at our right, we would behold the equally inspiring mounted figure of General George H. Thomas in thomas Circle. Thus all over Washington tpast is made to live again through the figures of those who have made its history.
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Photograph Collection