VINTAGE VIEWS OF NEW YORK .

The Obelisk, Central Park, New York City
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The Egyptian Obelisk -- "Cleopatra's Needle" in Central Park, presented to New York by Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, in 1877; granite, 69 feet high, weighs 230 tons; transported across the seas at the expense of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt. Erected 3,500 years ago by King Thothmes III, with the hieroglyphic titles on it of Thothmes and Rameses II; probably familiar to Moses and the Israelites in bondage in Egypt.
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Postcard Era:  White Border
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Postmarked:  8/21/1940
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