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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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| View of Broadway with St. Paul's Chapel, New York City | c. 1809-13 | 1897.5 | |
| Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album | 1979.7c | ||
| Study for an Illustration: Portrait of Fiorello Henry La Guardia (1882-1947) | c. 1941 | 1980.43 | |
| European Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio porphyrio) | c. 1554-1564 | 1889.10.1.48 | |
| Mystic Lake, Montana Territory | 1880 [1876] | 1955.106 | |
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Calligraphic Horse | c. 1850 | 1937.1723 |
| Jan Martense Schenck House, Brooklyn, New York City | 1919 | 1921.47 | |
| Harry B. Smith (1860-1936) | 1923 | 1990.1.5 | |
| View of People in Boats on a European River | 1863 | Z.3394 | |
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Line of Trees in a Meadow | 1918.281 |
