Jagiello, Abingdon Memorial, and NOT for summer wear in NYC

In the course of retaking photos in TIFF format, I captured this excellent detail of King Jagiello in Central Park (Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan #39). Below is the World War I Abingdon Memorial, by Philip Martiny, at the intersection of Bleecker, Hudson and 8th Ave. This one didn't didn't make the cut for Outdoor Monuments, but it was a close call.

And finally, a cheerful group of some of America's most famous females in the window of a fur store on Houston St., Manhattan.

King Jagiello: OMOM Essay 39

Why do we have a statue in Central Park of a medieval king of Poland? And why would Hitler surely have destroyed this sculpture, had it been returned to Poland after the New York World’s Fair of 1939? That’s the focus of “About the Sculpture.” “About the Subject” focuses on the battle between Jagiello’s army and the Teutonic Knights at Grunwald (1410).

Several sources called this Jagiello a copy of the Cracow statue of Jagiello that was sponsored by world-renowned pianist Ignacy Paderewski and was destroyed on Hitler’s orders. Although I didn't have space to discuss this in Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan, research showed that Central Park's Jagiello is not a copy of Paderewski's, as you can see by comparing a model of the Cracow sculpture (scroll down in the left-hand frame) with the photo above.