World Trade Center Construction Site: Triptych Panorama Including the North (74 Stories) and South Towers (26 Stories) Under Construction

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1970
Medium: 
Black porous-tip pen on three sheets of paper
Dimensions: 
Each Sheet: 23 1/2 x 17 7/8 in. (59.7 x 45.4 cm)
Description: 
Architecture, a triptych in a series of drawings showing the World Trade Centers under contruction from 1969-72.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.9
Inscriptions: 
Right sheet signed and inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "WELLING / JUNE 18,1970"; left sheet inscribed at lower right: "June 18, 1970 / NORTH TOWER 74 / SOUTH TOWER 26"; at the lower left in graphite: "13"; verso of right sheet inscribed at lower left in black porous-tip pen: "20. MANHATTAN SKYLINE"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
45297
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: Close-Up of the Cranes on the South Tower, North Tower in the Background

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1969-70
Medium: 
Black porous-tip pen on paper
Dimensions: 
23 5/8 x 18 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.8
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower center in black porous-tip pen: "JEROME KOCH ERECTING CO."; to right: "400 ROOSEVELT AVE / CARTERET, N.J. 07008"; to the right: "CINDY SPICER / 16 NOTTINGHAM DR. / SUFFERN, N.Y."; at lower left in ballpoint pen: "14"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1969
eMuseum Object ID: 
45296
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: North Tower Moving Up with Hudson River Train Supports in the Foreground

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1969
Medium: 
Black porous-tip pen on paper
Dimensions: 
23 5/8 x 18 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.7
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "4/1/69"; at lower left in ballpoint pen: "12"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1969
eMuseum Object ID: 
45291
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: Aluminum (?) Facing Being Installed on the North Tower (55 Stories at the Time) with South Tower Barely Visible in Back

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1970
Medium: 
Black and colored porous-tip pens on paper
Dimensions: 
23 5/8 x 18 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.6
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower left in black porous-tip pen: "4/8/70 / NORTH TOWER IN / FORGROUND ABOUT / 55 STORIES HIGH"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1970
eMuseum Object ID: 
45290
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site Diptych: View Drawn from the Upper Floor of the Hudson Terminal Building with the North Tower at the 40th Floor Level

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1969
Medium: 
Black porous-tip pen on two sheet of paper on paper
Dimensions: 
18 x 23 5/8 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.4
Inscriptions: 
Right sheet inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "11/29/69"; left sheet at lower left in ballpoint pen: "3"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1969
eMuseum Object ID: 
45289
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: Inside the North Tower Looking Out

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1969
Medium: 
Black and colored porous-tip pens and black ink on paper
Dimensions: 
23 5/8 x 18 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.3
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "WELLING / 8/8/69"; at lower left in ballpoint pen: "9"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1969
eMuseum Object ID: 
45288
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: Fence Around Construction Plastered with Moving Notices of the Small Firms Forced to Relocate

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1969
Medium: 
Black and colored porous-tip pens on paper
Dimensions: 
18 x 23 5/8 in.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.2
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "WELLING 5/30/69"; at lower left in ballpoint pen: "6"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1969
eMuseum Object ID: 
45287
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

World Trade Center Construction Site: The Big Dig Underway--Exposing the Walls of the "Bathtub"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1968
Medium: 
Black porous-tip pen on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 18 x 23 9/16 in. ( 45.7 x 59.8 cm )
Credit Line: 
Gift of Richard Welling
Object Number: 
2002.43.1
Marks: 
date: 4/5/68
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed at lower right in black porous-tip pen: "4/5/68"; at lower left in ballpoint pen: "2"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1968
eMuseum Object ID: 
45286
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth and Baptism of Elisabeth Schneider in Pennsylvania

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1787
Medium: 
Gouache and brown ink on beige paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 13 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. ( 34 x 41 cm )
Description: 
Fraktur: Horizontal rectangular sheet with handwritten German inscriptions enclosed in a red-bordered rectangle at center and in two small, red-bordered hearts at center top and bottom; border decorated with circular motifs and tulips in red, blue, yellow, and green.
Object Number: 
Z.3252
Marks: 
inscription: at center: "Diesen beiden Ehegaten als Christian Schneider und seiner / Ehlichen Hausfrau Elisabeth - - eine gebohrne / [Georg Rexin?], ist eine Tochter zur Welt gebohren Na- / mens Elisabeth Schneiderin im Jahr Christi 1813 den 14ten / Tag J
Inscriptions: 
With inscriptions in German
Gallery Label: 
The Pennsylvania Germans practiced a manuscript art called Frakturschrift or Zierschrift in German ("fraktur" in museum and collecting terminology). This art form, combining calligraphy with decorative motifs in ink and watercolor, was produced widely in Pennsylvania and in German settlements in other states from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1813
eMuseum Object ID: 
45258
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Sketchbook with 50 Folios, 6 blank, and endpapers (Views of the Lake Champlain Region, Vermont, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, the Delaware River, and Washington, D.C.)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1815
Medium: 
Watercolor, brown, and gray ink and wash, and graphite with scratching out on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (10.8 x 19.1 cm)
Description: 
Sketchbook
Credit Line: 
Purchase, James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number: 
1944.430.1
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed inside front cover along upper edge above black ink bust silhouette in brown ink: "46 Sketches in America, by George Heriot Esq'r. 1st Postmater General, Brit. America / Taken in 1815."; multiple brown ink inscriptions on the various folios
Provenance: 
Stiles Stevens, Esq., London, 1944
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1815
eMuseum Object ID: 
45235
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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