Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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view all| Title | Date | Object Number | |
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| Coffee Stand, Coenties Slip, New York City; verso: sketch | 1866 | 1949.326 | |
| Uniforms of the American Revolution: Hessian Musketeer, Regiment Prinz Carl of Hesse-Cassel | c. 1912 | 1923.155 | |
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Common Murre (Uria aalge), Havell plate no. 218 | 1833 | 1863.17.218 |
| Incidents in the Life of George Washington: Untitled | 1919 | 1936.944p | |
| Portrait of Prince William of Sweden (b. 1884) | 1927 | 1990.1.57 | |
| Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella), Female | c. 1554-1564 | 1889.10.4.18 | |
| Iroquois (Two Men and One Woman) | 1866-68 | 1872.23.3 | |
| Escape of Private O'Haver to the USS Monticello from a Rebel Ship after Killing the Captain, in Cape Hatteras Inlet near Chicamacomico, North Carolina | 4-5 October 1861 | 1945.580.42 | |
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Portrait of Peter of Buffalo, Tonawanda, New York, possibly chief Tall Peter, or Peter Blacksnake | 1807 | 1953.220 |
| Head of a Man; from disassembled Cummings album | 1979.28b |
