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The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
Date:
ca. 1834
Object Number:
1858.2
Medium:
Oil on canvas

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Lynch-Stoughton Journal
1783-1788
Letter of CH Austin to Ferguson & Walker, Apalachicola, September 29, 1845
1845
Receipted bill, Nicholas Roosevelt to Nicholas Bayard
May 15, 1766
Letter, "I estimate that an attack..."
1834
Miss Vanity's Holiday
After 1859
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
Ossawattomie Brown
ca. 1859
State of Minnesota response to Tilton
September 9, 1864
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
1932
Letter of George P. Bowers to Ferguson and Walker
1844
The Crayon
1855
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
1860
Heedless Johnny
1870
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
The N. O. massacre
1866
State of Delaware response to Tilton
September 12, 1864
A Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas...
1787
Loss of the packet ship Albion
1822
The definitive treaty of peace and friendship, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain : concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February, 1763, to which, the King of Portugal acceded on the same day...
1763
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
1835
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"
1810
Ledger, 1678-1684
1678-1684
A Song for the times, or John Brown
1860-1870
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
ca. 1788
First Report of the Committee of the Whole Convention
1787

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