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Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Old Beggar; Daniel Lambert; Indian returning from Hunt; Tropical Masquerade; Louisa, young girl; Elie Asine; Two figures; Profile of ma | 1811-1813 | 1953.287a-g | |
| Study of a Young Man in Profile, with a Study of a Man using a Bow Saw, from the Economical School Series; verso: three sketches of figures | c. 1810-14 | 1953.274j | |
| Soldier with Gun Fighting Arab on Horseback, from disassembled Cummings album | c. 1828-38 | 1979.48b | |
| "Tide Out", Townscape, Mont Saint-Michel, France | c. 1874 | 1935.85.2.61 | |
| Powder Horn: David Sturgis (FW-137), Two Sides Depicted with a Landscape Vignette of Ticonderoga, New York | 1887 | 1907.36.120 | |
| Powder Horn: Richard Montague (FW-43), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignettes of a Portrait of Richard Monatgue and a View of His Country Home | 1891 | 1907.36.42 | |
| Boat House, Spuyten Duyvil, New York City | 1911 | Z.2016.16c | |
| Raymond Gram Swing (1887-1968) | c. 1940-45 | 1947.192 | |
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A Woman's Head | 1880s | 1935.85.3.29 |
| Uniforms of the Continental Line, 1779-83 | 1905 | 1936.969a |
