Broadway actress, Billie Burke married Flo Ziegfeld. Burke is best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North from the Wizard of Oz.
www.musicals101.com/ziegwho.htm
N R W subway station, Broadway and 23rd Street. View Large
The mosaic work in this station remind me of the also excellent work in the Museum of Natural History station.
Lovely mosaic representation of the hat of William Barclay Parsons. ” In 1894, he became chief engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, designing the original plan for the Interborough Rapid Transit subway, which opened in 1904. His thorough examinations of Manhattan’s topography resulted in his use of the less expensive and more efficient cut-and-cover construction method for the first subway lines.”
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