New York City is seriously lacking in sculptures of historic women, with just five among the hundreds of bronzes and granite monuments in the five boroughs. Yet look into the faces of some of its allegorical figures — its angels, goddesses, and symbols of victory — and there are other real women embodied in these statues, even if their names are often lost.
Emma Stebbins
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A New Project Seeks to Erect Statues of Historic Women in Central Park
Out of the 29 statues now in the park, not one is of a real woman.
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A Guide to the 19th-Century Artists’ Graves of New York City
Cemeteries are like indexes of a city’s history, listing the names of its deceased from famous to forgotten in an endless litany.
