3-025-446 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

MAINE Mon't comm'ee [Monument Committee] on WYOMING, W.R. Hears[t], J.W. Keller, R.A.C. Smith, Adm Badger, Gen Jas. Wilson, 1913. Shows the Maine Monument Committee aboard the Wyoming, the battleship which led the fleet during the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War of 1898. Members of the committee included: Chairman James Grant Wilson, William R. Hearst, George F. Shrady, John W. Keller, and J. Edward Simmons. In 1913, the monument was placed at the Columbus Circle and 59th Street entrance to Central Park in New York City.