Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: Destruction
Date:
1836
Object Number:
1858.4
Medium:
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Still bank | 1870-1900 | Z.296 |
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Common Tern (Sterna hirundo), Havell plate no. 309 | ca. 1834 | 1863.17.309 |
| Wool wheel (bench and wheel) | 1750-1850 | Z.964ab | |
| Grocery and cigar store sign | 1850-1900 | INV.15001 | |
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Mechanical bank: Hall's Excelsior | 1869 | 1937.780a |
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Chest of drawers | 1825-1875 | 1937.1383 |
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Cabin Bank | ca. 1883 | 1937.1238 |
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Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus), Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) Red-shafted, Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis), and Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus), Havell plate no. 416 | 1822; Winter 1836-37 | 1863.17.416 |
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Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) and White-tailed Ptarmigan (Lagopus leucura), Havell plate no. 418 | 1838 | 1863.17.418 |
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Fireback memorial plaque: George Stevenson, 1763 | ca. 1763 | INV.9150 |
