New York . THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS is on the 5th Avenue side of Central Park at 79th Street. The view here shown is of the newei eastwing erected at a cost of $1,000,000. The museum contains the finest collection of paintings, statuary and antiques in America. On Sunday, the building iscrowded with sightseers. Ten thousand persons frequently pass through the turnstiles in the four hours allotted to the free public. No art museum in theworld, possibly excepting the Louvre, has surroundings so harmonious. The Park on one side and the palaces of 5th Avenue on the other are fitting en
New York . THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS is on the 5th Avenue side of Central Park at 79th Street. The view here shown is of the newei eastwing erected at a cost of $1,000,000. The museum contains the finest collection of paintings, statuary and antiques in America. On Sunday, the building iscrowded with sightseers. Ten thousand persons frequently pass through the turnstiles in the four hours allotted to the free public. No art museum in theworld, possibly excepting the Louvre, has surroundings so harmonious. The Park on one side and the palaces of 5th Avenue on the other are fitting environmentfor this unequalled collection of art treasures. MIP. I .IIP . . !»www^WW!W^!IWI!(BWIiii^^W«W««ppf. L •• ?- ?^•- COZ UIIBCLT JTATU, THE COLUMBUS STATUE stands at the entrance to Central Park at 59thStreet and 8th Avenue. It was made in Italy and erected to commemorate the -)U9UI)UOD UEDUaiUV 3M1 JO AJ3A03Sip 31(1 JO viJESJaAlUUB IJIOO^ THE OBELISK was presented to the city by the late Khedive of Egypt in is sixth in size of the famous Egyptian obelisks. The entire expense of itsremoval and erection on its present site near the Metropolitan Museum was borneby the late William H. Vanderbilt.
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