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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Powder Horn: P. A. Keller (R-58), Two Sides Depicted, and Vignette Views of Stone Church at Palatine and the Peter Wagner Farm and Blockhouse, | 1890 | 1907.36.239 |
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Two Sketches of Desirea Working in the FIeld | 1880s | 1935.85.3.39 |
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Marinus Willett (1740-1830): Silhouette | c. 1800 | Z.2440 |
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White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca), Havell plate no. 247 | 1833 | 1863.17.247 |
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Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) | c. 1940 | 1947.197 |
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Study of a Satyr, Louvre, Paris, France | 1876 | 1935.85.1.130 |
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The H Bomb Hits Lower New York City; preparatory for "The Sword and the Bible", 'This Week', October 21, 1953, a Sunday supplement | 1950 | 1956.6 |
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Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius) | ca. 1808 | 1863.18.1 |
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A message to Abe beamed!!- Mack 930 is on the seen [sic] | ca. 1970s | 2012.20.1 |
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Powder Horn: Martin Humphrey (R-10), Two Sides Depcited, with a Vignette of the Putnam's Tavern Sign | 1892 | 1907.36.194 |
