Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Fire helmet frontpiece: pipeman
Object Number:
INV.9219
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Leather, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 21 x 12.1 x 5.7 cm )
Marks:
applied/painted leather: on obverse: "PIPEMAN / 26 / ENGINE Co"
Description:
Black painted leather frontpiece from a fire helmet; "26" cut out at center and backed with gold painted leather, with "PIPEMAN" and "ENGINE Co" in applied, gold painted lettering on recessed, red painted panels above and below.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
