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Wedding dress
Date:
ca. 1712 with several alterations into the 20th century
Object Number:
1949.115a
Medium:
Silk brocade, needlepoint lace; silk chiffon

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Unidentified Male Delaware, possibly Montgomery Montour
1806-07
Shahaka (Sheheke or Big White c. 1766-1812), Chief of the Mandans
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Still Life with Flowers
Powder Horn: The Adam and Eve, German (F-41)
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1890
Study of a Horse's Head; verso: sketch of a harness horse racing
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1890
Vecht-Cortelyou House, Gowanus, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1899
Broadway Above Bowling Green, New York City
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Schenck House, East New York, Brooklyn, N.Y.C.
1896
Glens Falls, New York
1818
View of Newport with Harbor Entrance and Ruined Tower, Rhode Island
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William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
1837
Portrait of Hendrick, "Sachem" or Chief of the Mohawks; verso: bust-length sketch of a man in profile
1810
Luna Moth
1817
Three Plant Studies (Acorn and Oaks, Weeping Willow, and Small Flower) and a Landscape Sketch
1816
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1810
Study of Trees
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Powder Horn: Richard Andrus (R-15), Two Sides Depicted, with Landscape Vignettes of Fort Ticonderoga, New York and the Martyr Monument, Boston, Massachusetts
1891
Powder Horn: The Schoharie County Pocket Hunting Horn (H-17), with a Vignette View of the Ford at Bouck's Island, Schoharie River, New York
1889
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
1892
Sketch of a Female Student Writing, from the Economical School series
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