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Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Date:
ca. 1869
Object Number:
LIB.CT.T8855.B7

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Mother Goose Melodies Set to Music
1901
The House That Jack Built
1891
Linen A * B * C Book: First Steps
1899
A B C of Comic Animals
1897
My Darling's Pictoral ABC
ca. 1890
The Golden ABC
ca. 1875
Home ABC
ca. 1890
Three Iroquois: Atotárho Protected by Black Snakes, Flanked by Deganawida(?) Offering Wampum and Hiawatha(?)
c. 1827
Technical Study of the Incline Plane Mechanism of the South Hadley Canal, South Hadley, Massachusetts
1794
Pistol
1903-1910
Still bank
ca. 1881
Still bank
1830-1890
Still bank
1810-1850
Teapot and cover
1850-1890
Bowl
1872
Pitcher
1850-1880
Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct, Roman Campagna, Italy: Preparatory Drawing for "Roman Aqueduct"
c. 1861-62
Hard hat: Trump World Tower
ca. 2000
Curtain tiebacks (pair)
1850-1890
Figurine (bird)
1800-1900
Cup and saucer
1800-1850
Cup and saucer
ca. 1825
Cup and saucer
1825-1850
Spanish Boy; from disassembled Cummings album
Medicine bottle
1840-1860
Bowl
1800-1900
Dish
1825-1850
Bottle
1790-1840
Snuffbox with lid
1800-1850
Patch box with lid
ca. 1830
Snuffbox with lid
ca. 1815-1824
Match safe
1840-1870
911 Broken Heart
2001
Portrait of a Fire Hydrant, Grammercy Park, New York
1999
Pin-back campaign button
1964
Pin-back campaign button
1960
Souvenir mug
2001
Sketchbook with 50 Folios, 6 blank, and endpapers (Views of the Lake Champlain Region, Vermont, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, the Delaware River, and Washington, D.C.)
1815
Vegetable dish and stand
1785
Western-style hat
ca. 1940
Lantern
ca. 1840
Untitled (#3 from the World Trade Center Memorial Series)
2001
Civil War token
1863
World Trade Center Construction Site: The Big Dig Underway--Exposing the Walls of the "Bathtub"
1968
World Trade Center Construction Site: Fence Around Construction Plastered with Moving Notices of the Small Firms Forced to Relocate
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site: Inside the North Tower Looking Out
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site Diptych: View Drawn from the Upper Floor of the Hudson Terminal Building with the North Tower at the 40th Floor Level
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site: Aluminum (?) Facing Being Installed on the North Tower (55 Stories at the Time) with South Tower Barely Visible in Back
1970
World Trade Center Construction Site: North Tower Moving Up with Hudson River Train Supports in the Foreground
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site: Close-Up of the Cranes on the South Tower, North Tower in the Background
1969-70
World Trade Center Construction Site: Triptych Panorama Including the North (74 Stories) and South Towers (26 Stories) Under Construction
1970
World Trade Center Construction Site: First Drawing of the Site from the Hudson Terminal Building with Quite a Few Buildings Yet to be Demolished
1967
World Trade Center Construction Site: Steel Erection for North Tower Underway
1968
World Trade Center Construction Site: View from Pier 13, Looking East, Hudson Terminal Building in the Background; North Tower at 26th Floor
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site: Birdseye View from the Hudson Terminal Building, South Tower Moving Up, North Tower 30 Floors
1969
World Trade Center Construction Site: Ground Level View of North Tower at 30th Floor Level
1969
Chambers Street (Second Floor)
2001
Paperweight
2000
Fire helmet
1982
Collection of 2 coins: Philippine 1 peso and 50 cts.1947
Sestertius in envelope: Roman w/Hadrian on face
Coin: Africa
Fire helment frontpiece
ca. 1982
Longshoreman's unloader's hook
ca. 1965
Shell casing
ca. 1990
Shell casing
ca. 1990
Dinner plate
ca. 2001
Audubon Terrace
1998
Flower pot
1840-1880
Tankard
ca. 1765
Board and rollers (2) for making noodles
ca. 1920
Admiral Earl Howe
1798
Coin:V USA 1883
1883
Coffee cup
ca. 2001
Coin: half dollar, Oregon Trail Memorial 1926
Collection of 35 N.Y.tokens from State Hist. Soc. of Colorado
Burgoyne Surrounded
ca. 1920
Hard hat
2001
Respirator
2001
Identification card
2001
Woodcarving (parrot on "basket" of flowers)
ca. 1870
Portrait of Man
Contack
1939
Dominoes
1930-1950
Window of the Studio
ca. 1980
Henri de Gallon (1752-1837)
1819
FDNY badge
FDNY badge with purple bunting
Coin: Silver Quarter, Washington, 1932
Coin: California Gold, Octagonal
Transportation Token : Sprinfield Consolidated RY. Co.
1900-1940
Coin in box: half dollar: Bridgeport Conn.Centennial, 1936
Coin: Sing Sing Prison. Ten
1900-1943
Button
1963-1980
Pin-back campaign button
2000
Captain James Lawrence Naval Medal
1868-1885
Major General Winfield Scott
1824
Memorial token
1865
Edward W. Parsons & Mary F. Taber Marriage Medal
1876
Lincoln and Johnson presidential campaign medal
1864
New-York Historical Society Centennial Medal
1904
General Franklin Pierce Presidential Campaign Medal
1852
Pin-back campaign button
1992
Blow Bill Blow
1992
Pin-back campaign button
ca. 1981
1867 Silver Dollar box cover
1870-1900
David Hosack Medal
ca. 1830
Sunday School St. Paul's Church Ribbon
ca. 1839
The Society of Medalists 1st Issue
1930
Medal: Nature Study Exhibition July 1902
1902
Badge
Badge
ca. 1870
Pine tree three pence
1652
Pine tree shilling
1652
Pine tree shilling
1652
Pine tree shilling
1652
New Jersey copper
1786
Massachusetts cent
1788
New Jersey copper
1786
Oak tree shilling
1652
Pine tree shilling
1652
Connecticut copper
1787
Virginia half penny
1773
Pattern quarter
1792
Pin-back button
ca. 1990
Pin-back button
1989
Saucer
ca. 2001
Water VII
1997
Swipe card instructions
ca. 2001
Medal
ca. 1898
Medal
1908
Republican Worker for Mayor Seth Low Captain's Badge
1903
Ribbon
1904
Pattern quarter
1792
Half dime
1795
Half dime
1800
Fugio cent
1787
Fugio cent
1787
Fugio cent
1787
Capitol Dominoes
1950-1970
Pin-back button
1937
Shell casing
ca. 1990
Mortar and pestle
ca. 1850
Button
1992
Scranton for President
ca. 1964
Pin
ca. 1989
The Rockefeller University Founders Ball
1985
Tobacco box
ca. 1850
Pin-back campaign button
ca. 1996
Parcheesi
ca. 1940
Rook
1910
Pit
Monopoly
copyright 1936
Flinch
ca. 1940
Ross Perot for President '92
1992
Write in Dick Gregory President Peace and Freedom
ca. 1968
Needlebook
ca. 1945-1955
Lotto
ca. 1940
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Pin-back button
ca. 1978
Hitching post finial
1850-1900
Pin-back campaign button
1972
Where Men Once Lived
1980
Lapel pin
1980-1995
Apothecary jars with lid
1850-1900
Apothecary jars with lids
1850-1900
Apothecary jar with lid
1850-1900
Apothecary jar with lid
1850-1900
Snowglobe
2001
Winter
early 20th century
Fall
early 20th century
Downtown Sunset
2000
Button
1988
Civil War token: FR. Freose. Undertaker, 1863
1863
Civil War token
1863
U.S. Civil War token
1863
Button
1952-1956
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Buttons
1952-1956
The Orange Box
c. 1910-23
Fireman at Ground Zero
2001
Token
ca. 1827
Button
1984
Pin-back button
1996
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Pin-back campaign button
1952-1956
Civil War token
1863
Z.3159
Button
1952-1956
Commemorative t-shirt
Pin-back button
Pin-back button
1972
Civil War token
1863-1865
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Time for a change
2000
I Love USA
Carnegie Hall Stagebill for October 16-17, 2001
2001
February 6, 2002
2002
New York Philharmonic Stagebill for April 17-20, 2002
2002
Ticket stub
2002
World Trade Center Nocturne, 81st Floor
2000
Button
1945
Button
1968
Badge
1960
Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth and Baptism of Maria Magdalena Kaup in Berks County, Pennsylvania
1811
Pin-back button
1964-1976
Pin-back button
1950-1968
Pin-back button
1936
Badge
1968
Button
1968
Bootjack
1850-1900
Civil War tokens
1863
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Spring
early 20th century
Summer
early 20th century
Civil War token
1863
Civil War token
1863
Wax seal in box
ca. 1900
Convention ticket
1868
Matchbook
1940
Chewing gum
ca. 1940
Sewing box
1850-1900
Badge/tag: No Third Term
1940
Fraktur: Certificate of the Birth and Baptism of Christina Michaelin in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
c. 1807
Dag Hammarskjold
1954
Lucky Lindbergh token
1927
Campaign thimble: Willkie for President
1940
Campaign golf ball
1940
Campaign license plate
1940
Campaign souvenirs (2)
ca. 1973
Button
1972
Button
1968-1973
Self-Portrait (1903-1974)
c. 1965-66
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1910
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Fabric Samples
1950-1970
Studies of Two Bats and a Bat Head; verso diagrams of comparative measurements
1841
Study of a Bat
1841
Studies of Two Bats
1841
Prospect Park
ca. 1942-1944
Ewer
1833
Paperweight
ca. 1882
Paperweight
ca. 1892
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Campaign medal
1872
Paperweight
1981
Paperweight
Paperweight
ca. 1960-1980
Paperweight
ca. 1900
Paperweight
ca. 1900
Paperweight
ca. 1890-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1890-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
1900-1930
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1897
Paperweight
1920-1940
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1890-1930
Fabric Samples
1930-1950
Paper Samples
1930-1950
Letter Opener
1950-1970
Medallions/Textiles
1937
Decorating Samples
1950-1970
Decorating Samples
1950-1970
Decorating Samples
1950-1970
Beer mug
1900-1930
Mug/Beer
1900-1930
Soda mug
1900-1920
Cup
1920-1950
Saucer
1920-1950
Jug
1920-1950
Jug
1950-1970
Badge w/ribbon and pin
1902
Bat (Rhinopoma carolinensis?)
c. 1841
Hoary Bat
c. 1841
Paperweight
ca. 1890-1900
Paperweight
1887
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Marathon
ca. 1995
Campaign pin
1868
General U.S. Grant Presidential Campaign Medal
1868
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1930
Paperweight/Calendar
1892
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight/Game
1890-1920
Paperweight/Game
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Jug/Teapot
1920-1950
Miniature Bottle
1920-1950
Miniature Bottle
1920-1950
Bottle opener
1920-1960
Bottle opener
1930-1960
Bottle/Can Opener
1910-1940
Corkscrew
1900-1940
Corkscrew
1880-1920
Bottle Opener
1950-1970
Bottle/Can Opener
1920-1950
Lipstick
1930-1960
Lipstick
1930-1960
Bat; sketch of an ear
c. 1841
Bat; profile sketch of head
c. 1841
Bat
c. 1841
Campaign badge
ca. 1868-1872
Campaign lapel stud
1892
Campaign lapel stud
ca. 1888-1892
Protection H & M
1888
Button
1896
Strange Water
1999-2000
Water III
1996
Pin-back campaign button
1896
Paperweight/Game
1890-1920
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1920-1940
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight/Calendar
1892
Paperweight/Calendar
1892
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Blue vs. Gray - The Civil War Card Game: North
1990-2004
Blue vs. Gray - The Civil War: South
1990-2004
Preparatory Study for "Bus Terminal II (The Port Authority)", New York City
1987
Badge
1896
Street sign from Christopher Street
ca. 1990
Pendant
1896
Pin-back campaign button
1900
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Campaign pin
1908
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1910
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
1876
Paperweight
1890-1920
Pin-back button
ca. 1980
Paperweight
ca. 1900-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1910
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1910
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1892-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1910
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1910
Identification badge for bomb-sniffing dog, Ajax Moser
2001
Portrait of Charene
2001
Clothes hanger
ca. 1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
1876
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1880-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1892-1920
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Pin-back button
1972
Pin-back button
1972
View of St. Patrick's Cathedral from Inside Rockefeller Center: Study for a Set of Painted Doors
2002
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Button
1916
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Paperweight
ca. 1882-1900
Paperweight
1876
Paperweight
1876
Paperweight
1911-1930
Paperweight
1900-1930
Paperweight
1911-1930
Ballston Springs, New York [MISSING]
1807
Paperweight
1890-1910
Paperweight
1890-1910
Paperweight
1900-1940
Paperweight
1890-1910
Paperweight
1890-1930
Paperweight
1892-1893
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Button
1928
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Damaged front door of Rescue Copmany #2 rig
Demitasse spoon
1897-1925
Demitasse spoons (2)
ca. 1923
Souvenir letter opener
1985
The First Settler of Allegany, County, New York; First Cottage in Angelica, New York.
1808
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1890-1930
Paperweight
1880-1920
Paperweight
1870-1880
Paperweight
1880-1920
World Trade Center Construction Site: Birdseye View from an Upper Floor of a Law Firm at 140 Broadway of North and South Tower
1969
Paperweight
1880-1920
Paperweight
1880-1930
Paperweight
1880-1940
Paperweight
1880-1940
Paperweight
1880-1920
Paperweight
1876
Paperweight
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920
Pin-back campaign button
ca. 1912-1916
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign Medal
1864
Campaign pin
1864
George McClellan Presidential Campaign Medal
1864
Campaign pendant
1864
George B. McClellan Presidential Campaign Medal
1864
Campaign pin
1864
Lapel Stud
ca. 1884-1892
Pin-back button
2000
Pin-back button
ca. 2000
Pin-back button
Pin-back button
ca. 2000
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1904
Paperweight
1880-1930
Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus)
Greater Adjutant Stork (Leptoptilos dubius)
Two California Ground Squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi), Study for Plate no. 49 of "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America"
1841
Eastern Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger rufiventer), Study for Plate no. 55 of "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America"
1843
Lapel stud
1892
Pin-back campaign button
1884
Paperweight
1880-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1875-1890
Paperweight
1880-1910
Paperweight
1890-1920
Paperweight
1900-1920
Paperweight
1890-1920

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