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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Powder Horn: William Young (R-18) with Vignettes of a Scene of Chief Brant Pursuing Colonel Alden, Cherry Valley, New York, and a View of Wells Farm, Where Alden was Killed
Object Number:
1907.36.202
Date:
1892
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, graphite, and green and gold metallic pigment with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 14 5/8 in. ( 28.6 x 37.1 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed upper center: Rufus A. Grider made this from both / nature and desceiption. 1892, upper right: RA Grider sketched / in 1888
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower right: "The WILLIAM YOUNG horn...", with a brief history of the horn; inscribed and signed at upper right below vignette: "No 1. Site of WELLS farm...Rufus A. Grider / 1892.", with extensive historical notes; at left of center below vignette: "Chief BRANT persuing[sic] Col. ALDEN at CHERRY VALLEY..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
