This beer stein originally belonged to Woodrow Wilson.

This mug belonged to Mary Colden Swartwout, wife of Montgomery Livingston (1816-1855). It descended through the Livingston family.

This child's mug belonged to Walter Eugene Livingston (b. 1862).

Refined dining tables in eighteenth-century New York were equipped with sets of three silver casters: a large one for dispensing sugar and two smaller flanking casters for black and cayenne pepper. Measuring less than six inches high, this relatively small example was probably intended for dispensing pepper. Like most New York casters, it adheres closely to English prototypes. The caster descended in the family of Malcolm Sands Wilson, but its original owners are unknown. The engraved initials "B / M * S" may refer to a member of the Bayard family, distantly related to Wilson through his great-grandfather, Samuel Bayard Malcolm Sands (1799-1832).

This condiment shaker was a wedding gift to the donor's mother, Marie Antoinette Baker Davis, on the occassion of her marriage, October 17, 1871.

Silver tankards declined in popularity after the Revolutionary War. A small number made after 1780 survive, although most of the known examples were constructed in the hooped style and manufactured in Pennsylvania or Baltimore. This tankard, with a shaped, flat cover, sleek silhouette, and bright-cut foliate engraving, is one of the few known Neoclassical New York examples extant. With its straight, tapered sides, it combines the basic form of traditional colonial tankards with fashionable Neoclassical decoration. The foliate initials engraved on the cover indicate that the tankard was owned by New York merchant Robert Lenox (1759-1839) and his wife, Rachel Carmer (1763-1843), who married in 1793.

This tankard descended through at least five generations of the Fish family before its acquisition by the N-YHS. Nicholas Fish (1758-1833), its first known owner, may have received the mid-eighteenth-century vessel from his father. Nicholas Fish was a prominent American soldier, classmate and close friend of Alexander Hamilton, and aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette. The tankard descended in the Fish family, who took pride in its heritage and its role in the development of the city and the nation, and must have regarded this tankard, made around the time of Nicholas Fish's birth, as a precious family heirloom. This is evident in the later cipher added by the tankard's fourth owner, Susan Le Roy Fish Rogers (1844-1909), who had her initials boldly engraved in Gothic-style characters on the front of the tankard, perhaps at the time of her marriage to William Evans Rogers (1846-1913) in 1868.

The beaker may have been made for the birth of Mary Elizabeth Babcock (b. 1808) and passed down to Frances Morris, whose initials are also engraved on it.