Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), Havell plate no. 350 | 1836 | 1863.17.350 |
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Powder Horn: The M. L. G. (FW-171), with Vignettes of a Portrait of William Johnson and The Burk Tavern Sign | 1890 | 1907.36.150 |
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Powder Horn: William Swart (R-59) with Vignette Scene of the Men of an American Colonial Family Preparing to Join the Revolutionary Forces, 1776, with William Cullen Bryant's Poem "Seventy-Six" | 1890 | 1907.36.240 |
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"Maggie's Baby" | 1878-1883 | 1935.85.1.178 |
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William Edwards: Silhouette | 1794 | Z.2409 |
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Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), Havell plate no. 232 | 1821 | 1863.17.232 |
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Portrait of a Woman (Miss Thill?) | 1890s | 1935.85.3.83 |
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Line of Trees in a Meadow | 1918.281 | |
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Sunnyside, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York | 1856 | 1979.80 |
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Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), Havell plate no. 79 | 1822 | 1863.17.79 |
