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Most comprehensive guidebook in print to outdoor sculpture in Manhattan

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Note Cards

designed by Dianne Durante,
creator of www.ForgottenDelights.com

Note cards with images of New York Sculpture

Each card is printed on matte white card stock (5.5 x 4.25") and comes with an envelope. The artist, title and location of the work are printed on the back of each card.

Prices start at $2.50 each card (with envelope). Allow 2 weeks for delivery. Orders for note cards are processed through www.DesignedForMe.com, where you may specify the message and where you want the item shipped.

Image on front Title & artist Message on front / inside / back

America, by Daniel Chester French

Item N1

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Inside: Wishing you a splendid FOURTH OF JULY

Back: Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Brooklyn, by Daniel Chester French

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Inside: Greetings from Brooklyn

Farragut, by Augustus Saint Gaudens

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Inside: Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

Nathan Hale, by Frederick MacMonnies

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Inside: Don't give up.

Back: Excerpt from Arthur Hugh Clough, "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth"

Holley, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Inside: Did you ever know that you're my hero?

Back: Bayles on heroes, at the dedication of the Holley statue (Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan p. 60)

Manhattan, by Daniel Chester French

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Inside: Greetings from Manhattan

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Inside: This above all: to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Back: 20 lines from Hamlet, Act I, sc. 3, ending with the lines printed inside the card

Straus Memorial, by Augustus Lukeman

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Inside: Thinking of you

Back: Robert Burns, "O my Luve's like a red, red rose"

107th Infantry Monument, by Karl Illava

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Inside: You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs--victory in spite of all terrors--victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.  --Winston Churchill

Maine Monument, by Attilio Piccirilli

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Inside: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.  --John Stuart Mill (d. 1873)

Back: Maine Monument, whole

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much. (Much Ado About Nothing)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no such man be trusted. (Merchant of Venice)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright. / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear - / Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (Romeo and Juliet)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: Doubt thou the stars are fire, / Doubt that the sun doth move, / Doubt truth to be a liar, / But never doubt I love. (Hamlet)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. (Troilus and Cressida)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: Let's purge this choler without letting blood… / Deep malice makes too deep incision. / Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed. (Richard II)

Inside blank

Shakespeare, by J.Q.A. Ward

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Front: Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth. (Midsummer Night's Dream)

Inside blank

Chrysler Building and 42nd St. at sunset

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Front: That light we see is burning in my hall. / How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (Merchant of Venice).

Inside: You're a beacon! Thanks for all you've done

 

 

U.S. flags, 1776, 1847, 1959

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Inside: My toast would be: May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

 John Quincy Adams (d. 1848)

Part of $100 bill

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Front: If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. --Benjamin Franklin (d. 1790)

Inside: May your investment bring great dividends!

Time Warner Center

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Inside: Onward and upward - May your future be shining and bright

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Inside: You're still the only 1

Illustration from Columbus's report on his first transatlantic voyage, 1493

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Front: And if there had been more of the world, they would have reached it. --Camoes, Lusiadas (1572)

Inside: May you never lack worlds to conquer.

Woodcut (ca. 1870) of America's first steam railroad passenger train

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Front: My heart is warm with the friends I make, / And better friends I’ll not be knowing, / Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take /
No matter where it’s going. --Edna St. Vincent Millay

Inside: Hope your journey is full of novel sights and wonderful moments

Engraving of Col. Theodore Roosevelt

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Front: Do what you can with what you have where you are. - T. Roosevelt

Inside: With compliments from one experienced resource manager to another

"La Cuisiniere," color lithograph ca. 1780-1830

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Front: I was thirty-two when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. --Julia Child

Inside: Come taste what's cooking! [blanks for Date, Time, Place, RSVP]

Oh,
Oh,
Oh!

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Inside: Welcome to the big 30!
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Front: Columbus Monument from the atrium of the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle

Inside blank, can be printed to order

Prices start at $2.50 each card (with envelope). Allow 2 weeks for delivery. Orders for note cards are processed through www.DesignedForMe.com, where you may specify the message and where you want the item shipped.

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