Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The National Capital at Buenos Aires is not unlike our own Capitol at Washington in general appearance, but is much more elaborately decorated in the typical South American style."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Argentine is familiar with the standards set by Washington and Lincoln and admires these great Americans."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "General San Martin was one of the great patriots and liberators of South America from Spanish rule. After his death his body was brought to Buenos Aires and reverently placed in a tomb, one of the handsomest in the world, about which stand three marble figures representing Buenos Aires, Chile, and Peru."
