Collection Highlights

Chatelaine
Date:
ca. 1761
Object Number:
1954.179a-d
Medium:
Silver gilt, gold, enamel, ivory, chalcedony, glass, paint

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Fragment of a Sampler
1846
Magic lantern slide
1880-1910
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus), Havell plate no. 166
1832
Bell from the ferryboat "Elizabeth"
ca. 1904
Safe
1750-1775
Key West Quail-Dove (Geotrygon chrysia), Havell plate no. 167
1832
Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana), Havell plate no. 168; sketch of a feather
1832
Spoon stand
1786
Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor), Havell plate no. 169
1832
Gray Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis), Havell plate no. 170
1832
White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus), Havell plate no. 262
1832-35
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea), Havell plate no. 263
c. 1832-34
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), Havell plate no. 265
c. 1834-35
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Havell plate no. 266
1833; 1834
Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus), Havell plate no. 267
1835
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), Havell plate no. 268
c. 1832-34
Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia), Havell plate no. 269
c. 1835
Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), Havell plate no. 270
1831
Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), Havell plate no. 271; two studies of a foot
1832
Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), Havell plate no. 272
1834
Jug
1800-1814
Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), Havell plate no. 358
1833-34
Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus), Havell plate no. 360
1820; 1833; Winter 1836-37
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), Havell plate no. 363
c. 1835-36
Dried flowers from the funeral car of Abraham Lincoln
1865

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