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Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
Date:
1807
Object Number:
MSS.NewYorkCity.Misc.1
Medium:
Paper

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Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
ca. 1890
Henry Hubbard
Mid-19th century
James Monroe (1758-1831)
1817
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
1846-1847
General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794)
Late 19th century
The Charity Patient
1866
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
ca. 1836
Samuel Blachley Webb (1753-1807)
1793
Beekman family coat of arms
1760-1770
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
1920
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Winter 1831
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Balustrade section from Federal Hall, New York
1788-1789
Unidentified man, possibly Winter
Early 18th century
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
1905
Charles Willoughby Dayton III (1846-1910)
1897
Bell/buzzer unit
ca. 1950
General John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948)
ca. 1920
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
1809
John Rogers III (1866-1939)
1871
Richard Smith Clark (1803-1884)
1854
The Tap on the Window
1874
Woodcarving (parrot on green base)
1850-1890
George Washington (1732-1799)
Mid-19th century
Chalkware ("Bloomer Girl")
1850-60
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
ca. 1793
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
1810
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Neighboring Pews
1941
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
1853 (patented)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1865
A Dog Stretching
Late 19th century
Francois Joseph Talma
ca. 1850
Architectural fragment from the exterior of the Audubon Ballroom
ca. 1912
"Is It So Nominated In The Bond?"
March 1880
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
1924
Walter Tower Rosen (1875-1951)
1952
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
ca. 1800-1805
Playing Doctor
December 1872
Fairy's Whisper
September 1860
Washington Allston (1767-1843)
1839
The Slave Auction
1859
Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg) (one of a set of five)
20th century
Pierre Simon LaPlace (1749-1827)
Mid-19th century
Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)
ca. 1850
Medal: ...callad... Elihu Root
1906
Robert Bacon (1860-1919)
1910
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
1836
Pedestal for sculpture "Faust and Marguerite - Their First Meeting"
ca. 1885
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
1825
George William Curtis (1824-1892)
ca. 1880
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid-19th century
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
1838
Woodcarving (eagle)
ca. 1865
Joe's Farewell
1871
The Picket Guard
1861
Rip Van Winkle Returned
December 1871
Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman (1851-1932)
1924
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century to early 19th century
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
1928
Support bracket
Pair of desktop call buttons
ca. 1915
William Adams Delano (1874-1960)
1944
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
1934
Faust and Marguerite, Their First Meeting
1890
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
1934
Phrenology At The Fancy Dress Ball
1886
Mrs. Isaac Otis (ca. 1828-1868)
1870
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
1831
Chalkware (dog)
1850-1890
One of a pair of vases with covers and stands
1740-1760
Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)
ca. 1840
Isaac
1858
The Council Of War
1868
The Indian Hunter
1860
Augustus Cornwall Downing (1817-1895)
1868
Horse
Late 19th century
Taking The Oath And Drawing Rations
1865
Architectural fragment from the exterior of the Audubon Ballroom
ca. 1912
Neighboring Pews
December 1883
Edmund Pendleton (?)
1839
Frank Talbott, Jr.
1963
Reverend Charles Washington Baird, D.D. (1828-1887)
1887
John Wakefield Francis, M.D., (1789-1861)
ca. 1835
Unidentified man
19th century
George B. Cutten (1874-1962)
1947
Me-ghe-ke-le-au-tah
Mid-19th century
Professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966)
1962
Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer (1823-1897)
1849
Miss Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
1929
Amerigo Vespucci (ca. 1454-1512)
ca. 1790-95
Plaque
ca. 1909
Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1869-1940)
1941
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1922
Reclining Cupid
1760-1800
John James Audubon (1785-1851) (after Robert Havell Jr.)
1907
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1792-1800
Young buck
20th century
Luman Reed (1785-1836)
ca. 1849
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
1862
Mrs. John Rogers, Sr. (1805-1877)
1874
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
1867
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
1887
Ichabod Crane and the "Headless Horseman"
December 1887
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Chalkware (ewe and lamb)
1850-1890
George Westinghouse (1846-1914)
1925
Weighing The Baby
1941
Portrait of Ann Rainey
1927
Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman (1829-1902)
1898
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
1923
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
1958
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
1914
The Foundling
1870
Union Refugees
1863
The Fisher Girl
1860
Chalkware (seated boy)
1850-1890
One of a pair of vases with covers and stands
1740-1760
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1821)
1816
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
INV.15018
Mid 19th century
Mrs. John Jones Schermerhorn (ca. 1810-1840)
1837
Stephen Burroughs (1795-1840)
Mid-19th century
Unidentified man
Late 19th century
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
ca. 1800
Architectural fragment
ca. 1870-1910
Faust and Marguerite: Their First Meeting
1890
Mikhail Mordkin (1881-1944)
ca. 1910
Mrs. Wynn Lawrence Le Page (Agnes Yarnell)
1925
George Washington (1732-1799)
1878
Woodcarving (lion)
ca. 1870
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
1911
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Captain James Lawrence (d. 1813) and his infant son James Montaudevert Lawrence, (1813-1814)
1814
Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
1931
Wendell Lewis Wilkie (1892-1944)
1944
Portrait medallion on wooden panel
1919
Thomas John Watson (1874-1956)
1946
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Mid-19th century
Coachman
ca. 1865
Fire Chief Harry Howard
ca. 1857
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
N-YHS Gold Medal for Achievement in History
1925
William Sulzer (1863-1941)
1910
Charles Wilkes (1764-1833)
1830
Woodcarving (squirrel)
ca. 1890-1920
Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842-1933)
ca. 1932
Unidentified woman
Mid-19th century
Weighing The Baby
1876
Tombstone of William Bradford.
ca. 1752
"Ha! I Like Not That!"
1882
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1912
Playing Doctor
1872
The Four Seasons
ca. 1912
Abraham DePeyster (1657-1728)
1893
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
1838
Mrs. John Theodore Saxe (ca. 1850-1881)
1871
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
circa 1876
The School Examination
1867
The Picket Guard
1861
Mrs. John Archibold (Lucy)
1949
Chalkware (mantel ornament: leaf spray)
1850-1890
The Fugitive's Story
September 7, 1869
Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
1909
George Washington (1732-1799)
Early 19th century
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
1887
George Washington (1732-1799)
19th century
William Pitt (1759-1806)
1801
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Late 19th-early 20th century
General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
1891
Bust (sketch) of Frederick Douglass
2011
Rip Van Winkle On The Mountain
1871
Anne Morgan (1873-1952)
1937
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1915
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 19th century
Woodcarving (parrot)
ca. 1870
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
1930
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
1789
Woodcarving (eagle)
ca. 1865
Private Theatricals, Last Moments Behind The Scenes
1878
Window light (panes)
1825-1925
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
1935-1940
Tablet
1840-1857
Right Hand of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1886
Liberty Enlightening the World
1878-1886
Woodcarving (chicken)
1850-1890
Richard Upjohn (1802-1878)
ca. 1865
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
The New York City Nutcracker
ca. 1991-94
Chalkware (rabbit)
1850-1890
Robert Fulton (1765-1815), with Model of First Steamboat
1900-1920
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
1950
The Favored Scholar
1873
William Axtell De Peyster and Mary Beekman De Peyster Memorial
1911-1915
The Fugitive's Story
1869
Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935)
1936
A Frolic At The Old Homestead
1887
Cover plate
ca. 1930
Frederic De Peyster (1796-1882)
ca. 1875
Hugh Williamson, M.D. (1735-1819)
1816
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1860
Faust and Marguerite Leaving the Garden
1891
Achilles and Penthesilea
1857
Parting Promise
1870
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1943
General Winfield Scott (1786-1866)
Mid-19th century
Jeremiah Dodge (1781-1860)
ca. 1835
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877-1965)
1949
Bayard Dodge (1887/8-1972)
1962
Reverend Thomas Church Brownell, D.D. (1779-1865)
1860
"You Are A Spirit, I Know: When Did You Die?"
April 1885
Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827)
Possibly late 19th century
Unidentified Man
Late 19th century
Henry Hudson (d. 1611)
ca. 1938
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
1902
Chess
1889
William Henry Seward (1801-1872)
1857
Milliner's head
1820-1870
General Winfield Scott (1786-1866)
ca. 1850-1860
Christopher Columbus (1446-1506)
ca. 1835-1845
William Paley (1901-1990)
1934
Asher Brown Durand, 1796-1886
1840-1841
Isaac Wyman Drummond (1855-1933)
1912
Portrait bust
ca. 1816

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