Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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| Battle of Lake Champlain | 1815 | 1963.65 | |
| Dr. Harold Clayton Urey (1893-1981) | c. 1940-45 | 1947.205 | |
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Getrude McCurdy | 1879 | 1935.85.1.33 |
| Study of Trees, Woodstock, New Hampshire | 1857 | 1918.152 | |
| Stone Lodge at Highwood Entrance, Weehawken Heights, New Jersey | c. 1857 | 1928.100 | |
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Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata), Havell plate no. 327 | 1832 | 1863.17.327 |
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Theodore Johnson and His Daughter Louisa: Silhouette | 1840 | Z.2400 |
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Bat; sketch of an ear | c. 1841 | Z.3307 |
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Women and Children on a Stairwell: Life Studies Related to "La Vie des Bohémiens" | 1937 | 2009.36 |
| Powder Horn: The Eskimo, with Bullet Pouch and Cap Box (I-17), with a Vignette Portrait of an Alaskan Indian | 1890 | 1907.36.401 |
