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Cayambe
Date:
1858
Object Number:
S-91
Medium:
Oil on canvas

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Original wood blocks from the archives of McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, New York
ca. 1978
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
ca. 1788
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
1835
To The People of Louisiana, Their Executive and Representatives Greeting
January 29, 1861
Properties, Including Vacant Plots, Foreclosed in Manhattan During 1930-1931-1932
March 29, 1933
Letter about ordering uniforms from Brooks Bros.
A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
1829
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
October 1660- June 1663
Presentation scroll given to NY DA Hugh Maxwell by the Merchants of the City of New York
1829
Can we afford to rule subject peoples? /by Felix Adler ; extracts from an address delivered before the Society for Ethical Culture, March 18, 1900
1900
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
1864
Letter from Maria Martin (Mrs. John Bachman) to Lucy Bakewell Audubon
1843-1850
Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce and the general disposition of its inhabitants.
1771
Letter home from a Union nurse concerning a contraband slave
March 4th, 1862
A memoir of Granville Sharp : to which is added Sharp's "Law of passive obedience," and an extract from his "Law of retribution"
1836
Grand bobalition of slavery!! : Grand and most helligunt selebrashun of de bobalition of slabery in de Nited Tate ob Neu Englunt, and commonwet of Bosson in the contry of Masasa-chuse-it
1817
First Report of the Committee of the Whole Convention
1787
Morgan Iron Works
1861
Communication from His Honor the Mayor, Fernando Wood, Transmitted to the Common Council of New York, January 7th, 1861
1861
Letter
June 13, 1873
Pictorial map of New York and vicinity, showing the suburban towns, and railroad and water communications
1871
Guía de Nueva York, para uso de los Españoles é Hispanoamericanos...
1863
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
The Fugitive Slave Bill, its History and Unconstitutionality
1850
Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-Hashanah, and Kippur, or the Sabbath...According to the Order of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
1766

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