This scrapbook page continues an American sailor's 1939 tour of London, featuring landmarks along the Victoria Embankment including Cleopatra's Needle and its guardian sphinx statues, the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square, and the Houses of Parliament with Big Ben. Informal shots of sailors climbing on the sphinxes and feeding pigeons capture the lighter side of shore leave, preserving a personal record of London's most iconic sights in the final months of peace before the Second World War. Project: 218720