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Lawn-mowing Camels
With Tammany Hall running the city, Central Park went to waste. At the Central Park Zoo, the animals were put on notice. No more leisurely life and easy peanuts for them. The stooges on Tammany's pay-roll hooked up this poor camel to mow the lawn for them on Sheep's Meadow. . . . (cont.)
Birdseye View - 1863
This lithograph was created of the Park by John Bachman in 1863, only four years after it opened. Prominent in this depiction are the Pond, the Lake, and the symmetrical Mall in the center, all of which remain today. The rectangular Croton Reservoir at top sits on the site of the present Great Lawn. . . . (cont.)
As a political organization, Tammany Hall has perhaps never known an equal. It was a product of the madness of 19th Century New York - a time of great wealth and extreme poverty, of high aspirations and hard conditions. Tammany supervised it all, reigning supreme over city politics from the end of the Civil War to the beginning . . . . (cont.)
Skating in Central Park
when they first opened the park, 100,000 people showed up to ice-skate by moonlight. Here are skaters some 25 years later skating in front of the newly finished Dakota Building - so named because when it was finished in 1882, it was so far away from the city that people said it might as well be in the Dakota Territory. . . . (cont.)
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