Cannonball
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 in. ( 10.2 cm )
Description:
Iron cannonball.
Object Number:
INV.6347.1
Gallery Label:
According to an attached label, this cannonball was found by Reginald P. Bolton and others in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
23853
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Rum bottle
Classification:
Date:
1770-1780
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 4 in. ( 25.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle blown in dip mold and has a cylindrical neck with applied string rim, rounded shoulders, squat cylindrical body with push-up and pontil mark; devitrification and iridescence over surface of the bottle, old restoration.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association
Object Number:
1947.564
Gallery Label:
Found in the Military Hut Camp of the 17th Regiment of Foot at Prescott (Payson) Ave., Inwood, NJ. See NYHS Quarterly Bulletin, October, 1929, p. 89.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1780
eMuseum Object ID:
23851
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cannonball
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 5/8 in. ( 6.7 cm )
Description:
Iron cannonball.
Object Number:
INV.6407.1
Gallery Label:
According to an attached tag, this cannonball was found by Reginald P. Bolton and others at a Revolutionary War site in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
23636
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cannonball
Classification:
Date:
1760-1783
Medium:
Iron
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/4 in. ( 7 cm )
Description:
Iron cannonball.
Object Number:
INV.6406.1
Gallery Label:
According to an attached label, this cannonball was found by Reginald P. Bolton and others at a Revolutionary War site in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1783
eMuseum Object ID:
23635
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1830-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. ( 29.2 x 8.3 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a bulging cylindrical neck with an applied string rim (majority of finish broken off), rounded shoulders, and a cylindrical body with straight sides and smooth push-up, no pontil mark evident.
Credit Line:
Found by Joseph Rapport and Richard Koke of the NYHS
Object Number:
1949.239a
Marks:
typed: on label; "BOTTLE/ 19-TH CENTURY/ FOUND IN BATTERY PARK IN 1949 DURING THE EXCAVATION FOR THE BATTERY-BROOKLYN TUNNEL"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle is part of a collection of artifacts recovered during excavation in Battery Park, New York City, during construction of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
23492
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1760-1770
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 25.1 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a cylindrical neck with an applied, up-tooled, string rim, rounded shoulders, and a squat cylindrical body with a push-up and pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Authur Mauer
Object Number:
1951.467
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was excavated by the donor in 1916 at the site of the Hut Camp of the British 17th Regiment of Foot on the east side of Payson (formerly Prescott) Avenue, Inwood, New York City. The bottle was found at a depth of three feet below the surface, and was covered with fire ashes.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1770
eMuseum Object ID:
23491
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1750-1770
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. ( 26 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a cylindrical neck, applied V-shaped string rim, rounded shoulders, and a squat, cylindrical body with a push-up and a pontil mark; broken and repaired with some losses.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dorothy Barck
Object Number:
1954.142
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was recovered from a Revolutionary War fort or campsite in Washington Heights, New York City, by Oscar T. Barck, a member of the N-YHS Field Exploration Committee.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1770
eMuseum Object ID:
23456
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1800-1830
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 2 1/2 in. ( 22.9 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead glass bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a bulging, cylindrical neck (finish broken off), rounded shoulders, and a cylindrical body with straight sides and conical push-up; pontil mark not evident.
Credit Line:
Found by Joseph Rapport and Richard Koke of the N-YHS
Object Number:
1949.239c
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was found by Joseph Rapport and Richard Koke of the New-York Historical Society in Battery Park in 1949 in the excavations for Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Battery Park Underpass.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
23405
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flask or case bottle
Classification:
Date:
1700-1800
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 25.4 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass case bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a sort, cylindrical neck with a flared mouth, sloping shoulders, and the body has four flat, rectangular, sides with a slight push-up and a blowpipe scar; broken, and missing a large fragment from one wall.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Washington Headquarters Association
Object Number:
1947.549
Marks:
written: on lable on bottom; "1912/ Lewis/ Morris/ Vault/ Morrisania"
typed: on loose tag; "FLASK OR CASE BOTTLE/ FOUND IN A STONE VAULT WITH 18TH CENTURY DEBRIS/ NEAR THE SITE OF THE LEWIS MORRIS HOUSE/ NEAR THE WILLIS AVENUE BRIDGE, MORRISANIA./ BRONX,
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was found in a stone vault with other 18th-century artifacts near the Lewis Morris House, or the Bronck House, near the Willis Ave. Bridge in the Bronx, New York, in 1912 by Reginald Bolton and William Carver. This object was incorrectly identified in the N-YHS Quarterly Bulletin, October, 1929, p. 89, as having been found in the camp of the Musketeer Regiment von Donop, at Broadway and West 168th Streets.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
23314
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Rum Bottle
Classification:
Date:
1770-1780
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 x 3 1/2 in. ( 27.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Olive green, non-lead, blown glass bottle; bottle blown in a dip mold and has a cylindrical neck with applied string rim, rounded shoulders, and a cylindrical body with a push-up and pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Found by the N-YHS Field Exploration Committee
Object Number:
1918.41
Marks:
written: in red; "23/4"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this bottle was found by the New-York Historical Society Field Exploration Committee in 1906 in the Revolutionary War-era Hut Camp of the 17th Regiment of Foot (British) at Seaman Ave., in Inwood, New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1780
eMuseum Object ID:
23306
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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