Collection of eight plaques
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Metal
Dimensions:
largest: 1 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 4.4 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Collection of eight sheet metal plaques, each with number and holes for attaching to wall or door, and each reading "SUFFOLK SIDE PATH."
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert D. Halsey
Object Number:
Z.937a-h
Marks:
impressed: on all plaques: "SUFFOLK SIDE PATH"
Gallery Label:
These plaques appear to have been railroad car room number markers. A note written on the paper wrapper in which these and other objects were found indicates that they were collected by Herbert D. Halsey and donated in 1941.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27173
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Wood fragment from Sir William Johnson's coffin
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1774
Medium:
Wood, paper, string
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 2.5 x 16.5 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Wood fragment from Sir William Johnson's coffin wrapped in yellow paper with accompanying letter.
Credit Line:
Gift of P. Skinner
Object Number:
INV.825
Marks:
written: on paper wrapper; "Piece of the coffin of Sir William Johnson who died in 1774/ Taken from the vault June 1862/ by M. Wade esq. Clerk of Fulton County/ Presented to N.Y. Historical Society/ by...kinner, September, 1862"
Gallery Label:
Sir William Johnson, the Mohawk Valley pioneer and colonial superintendent of Indian affairs, was buried in the Episcopal church in Johnstown, NY in 1774, and was reinterred during the rebuilding of the church in 1862, at which point this coffin fragment was recovered.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1774
eMuseum Object ID:
27151
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Wood block and document from church in Holland which the Pilgrims attended
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Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1620
Medium:
Wood, paper, textile
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in. (5.1 x 7.9 x 6.7 cm)
Description:
Rectangular block of wood with folded document attached with green ribbon.
Object Number:
186
Marks:
written: in ink on paper document: "Certificate/ L.S./ The undersigned, administrators of the Reformed Church in Delfshaven (Holland), hereby certify that the annexed [sic] piece of oak is a part of a threshold of the door, leading out of the church into
Gallery Label:
According to the attached document, this block of wood was part of the threshold of the door of the Reformed Church in Delfshaven, Holland, that the Pilgrims attended.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1620
eMuseum Object ID:
27145
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Fragment of Stuyvesant pear tree
Classification:
Date:
1650-1750
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 14 x 24 in. ( 2.5 x 35.6 x 61 cm )
Description:
Section of tree cut vertically.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Col. J. Mayhew Wainwright
Object Number:
1946.212a
Gallery Label:
This fragment comes from the pear tree which was brought from Holland as a sapling by Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), the last director-general of New Netherland. The tree was planted at Stuyvesant's bouwery, or country estate, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street. The tree stood until February, 1867, when a vehicle collided against it and sent it crashing to the ground.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
27140
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Fragments of Stuyvesant pear tree (2)
Classification:
Date:
1650-1750
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
larger: 1 3/4 x 23 x 8 1/2 in. ( 4.4 x 58.4 x 21.6 cm )
Description:
Two sections of tree cut vertically.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Col. J. Mayhew Wainwright
Object Number:
1946.212ab
Gallery Label:
This fragment comes from the pear tree which was brought from Holland as a sapling by Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), the last director-general of New Netherland. The tree was planted at Stuyvesant's bouwery, or country estate, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street. The tree stood until February, 1867, when a vehicle collided against it and sent it crashing to the ground.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
27139
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Fragment of Stuyvesant pear tree
Classification:
Date:
1650-1750
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/4 x 23 x 8 1/2 in. ( 4.4 x 58.4 x 21.6 cm )
Description:
Section of tree cut vertically.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Col. J. Mayhew Wainwright
Object Number:
1946.212b
Gallery Label:
This fragment comes from the pear tree which was brought from Holland as a sapling by Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), the last director-general of New Netherland. The tree was planted at Stuyvesant's bouwery, or country estate, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street. The tree stood until February, 1867, when a vehicle collided against it and sent it crashing to the ground.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1750
eMuseum Object ID:
27137
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Plastic chain
Classification:
Date:
1875-1900
Medium:
Plastic
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 5/8 x 3/8 in. ( 27 x 1 cm )
Description:
Dark gray plastic chain composed of circular links.
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert D. Halsey
Object Number:
Z.936
Gallery Label:
According to a note written on the paper wrapper in which this and other objects were found, it is a relic collected by Herbert D. Halsey, and was donated in 1941.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
27074
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Page from book belonging to Russian soldier
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1800-1850
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 7 in. ( 11.1 x 17.8 cm )
Description:
Torn page from book written in Russian with handwritten English inscription.
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert D. Halsey
Object Number:
Z.933
Marks:
Written: in ink: "A piece of a book found in the knapsack of a dead Russian after the [awful?] charge of Bala[ktava?] before [S------]"
Gallery Label:
According to a note written on the paper wrapper in which this and other objects were found, it is a relic collected by Herbert D. Halsey, and was donated in 1941.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
27073
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Wood fragments from the "Merrimac"
Classification:
Date:
1860-1865
Medium:
Wood, paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 1/4 in. ( 5.1 x 0.6 cm )
Description:
Two wood fragments wrapped in paper inscribed with note explaining that the wood is from the Merrimac.
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert D. Halsey
Object Number:
Z.932
Marks:
written: on paper: "Piece of the Rebel iron-clad gunboat 'Merrimack' cut by Henry Draper Esqu from a piece brought from fortress Munroe by President Lincoln, to Washington, from there to new York by Simeon Draper Esqr./ New York May 19th 1862, Monday"
Gallery Label:
According to a note written on the paper wrapper in which this and other objects were found, it is a relic collected by Herbert D. Halsey, and was donated in 1941.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
27035
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Fossil
Classification:
Date:
1875-1885
Medium:
Quartz
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 1 in. ( 5.7 x 5.7 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Quartzite fossil of cylindrical object, possibly crinnoid.
Credit Line:
Gift of Herbert D. Halsey
Object Number:
Z.931
Gallery Label:
According to a note written on the paper wrapper in which this and other objects were found, it is a relic collected by Herbert D. Halsey, and was donated in 1941.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1885
eMuseum Object ID:
27033
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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