On photo mount label: A. St. Gaudens. Farragut Monument. New York, Madison Square. Gift of: Carnegie Corporation of New York. Classification number: 282/2d copy. Accession: 17867. On second photo mount label: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/The Library/ This Collection of Photographs/Desirable in the Study of Art/was assembled by/The Carnegie Corporation/of New York/and Presented to the Museum/in the Year 1930/(stamped:) 1755. On third photo mount label: [cropped]/1878/Bronze Statue; Stone Base/Statue above Life-Size/NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE. On fourth photo mount label, on recto: AMERICAN SCULPTURE/Saint-Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907)/Farragut Monument/1878/Bronze Statue; Stone Base/Statue above Life-Size/NEW YORK, MADISON SQUARE.
The original bluestone pedestal and exedra were replaced with a black granite replica in 1935; the original exedra was moved to the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, N.H. where it is displayed with a replica bronze statue of Farragut.
1 photographic print : b&w, 7 x 8 1/2 in. (trimmed), mounted on 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. board.
