C-SPAN Records · Monument on Theodore Roosevelt Island, Arlington, Virginia with Central Park caption

Monument on Theodore Roosevelt Island, Arlington, Virginia with Central Park caption

Identifier: C0270B434_150
Title: Monument on Theodore Roosevelt Island, Arlington, Virginia with Central Park caption
Description: A photograph of a bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt with his arm raised. The following text appears beneath: "Above: Theodore Roosevelt has been honored in Washington, D.C. with an eighty-eight-acre, federal preserved island on the Potomac River, across from Rosslyn, Virginia. Heavily wooded and full of walking paths, Roosevelt Island also memorializes the twenty-sixth President with this statue created by Paul Manship. Opposite: Central Park, designed in 1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted, covers 843 acres between Fifth and Eighth Avenues and 59th and 110th Streets in Manhattan. There are more than forty bridges along the park's fifty-eight miles of footpaths, such as this one, which offers a view south toward 59th Street."
Date: 2001
Extent: 6.25x9.75
Subject: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Peirce, Maura; Memorials; Booknotes (Television program)
Type: Photograph
Format: Color
Language: Eng
Physical location: Box 434
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Copyright not held by George Mason University Libraries. Restricted to personal, non-commercial use only. For permission to publish, contact Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.