Photo Credit: Roving Rube. Viewpoint: 5th Ave. between 49th and 50th St., looking west; 1/27/02 1:02 PM.

Notes (Roving Rube): This is the bottom half (top half shown tomorrow!) of "The Friendship of France and the United States", which adorns the French side of the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center.

Frances Morrone, in The Architectural Guidebook to New York City, says that these allegorical figures presumably represent the three qualities New York City and Paris have in common.