A. Piccirilli

Photo shows sculptor Attilio Piccirilli standing next to the memorial he designed to the battleship Maine, which exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City. (Source: Central Park Web site and Flickr Commons project, 2009)Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbai