Collection Highlights

Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls of the first subway train, October 27, 1904
Date:
1904
Object Number:
PR.020.90.1
Medium:
Silver gelatin print

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Unidentified Songbird: "Sylvia trochitus delicata"
1808
Study for "Sylvan Toilet" (1896)
1890s
Baroness Hyde De Neuville's Cabin on the "Eurydice"
1816
Magdalen Walgrove Warner (c. 1745-1814)
1806
William Tappan: Silhouette
1793
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla), Havell plate no. 405
1838
Smew (Mergellus albellus), Havell plate no. 347
c. 1834-35
Study for "Electricity" Mural, Columbian Exposition, Manufacturer's Building
1890s
Submission Illustration for the Central Park Competition: View from the Site of the Principal Entrance on Fifty-Ninth Street, Looking Northerly--Illustrating Improvements, New York City
1857
William Walton Seated, Resing Head in Hand
August 7, 1886
Alexander Cumming McWhorter (c. 1762-1808)
c. 1800
Self-Portrait (1818-1893) Sketching in the Woods
1848
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus), Havell plate no. 231
1831
Sketch of Mary's face
1878-1883
"Washington as Commander-in-Chief": Design for a Proposed Statuary Group, Washington Memorial Arch, New York City
c. 1890
Self-Portrait (1856-1945)
1897
PEE WEE
2015
Black-throated Green Warbler (Dendroica virens), Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca), MacGillivray's Warbler (Oporornis tolmiei), Cape May Warbler (Dendroica tigrina), Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera), Havell plate nos. 399 and 414
c. 1836-37
Reverend T. Marten, Malmsbury Wiltshire, England
1830
Sunrise. Flatbush and the Ocean from the Green-Wood Cemetery, L. I., [Brooklyn], New York
1830s-40s
Portrait of a Seated Woman
1879
Powder Horn: Captain Nathan Hale (R-7), with a Vignette Scene of the Execution of Nathan Hale, after Darley
1891
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica), Havell plate no. 59
1812; c. 1825
Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth and Baptism of Maria Magdalena Kaup in Berks County, Pennsylvania
1811
Augusta Hadley: Silhouette
1859

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