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The Rail Candidate
Date:
1860
Object Number:
PR.010.1860.Rail
Medium:
Lithograph

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (1816-1876)
ca. 1870
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th-early 19th century
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833)
ca. 1840
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1777
The Bath
by 1894
Wounded Scout, A Friend In The Swamp
1864
William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874)
1874
INV.707
Medal: ...callad... Elihu Root
1906
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
1928
Polo
1879
The Bushwhacker: The Wife's Appeal for Peace
1865
Ship figurehead
ca. 1850
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
1909
Woodwork from Beekman mansion
1763
Woodcarving (bird)
1850-1900
George Washington (1732-1799)
Possibly late 18th century
David Hosack, M.D. (1769-1835)
ca. 1825-1830
Chalkware (rooster)
1850-1890
Chalkware ("Bloomer Girl")
1850-60
The Peddler At The Fair
1878
The Village Schoolmaster
1861
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 19th century
Rip Van Winkle On The Mountain
December 1871
Bell/buzzer unit
ca. 1950
"Madam, Your Mother Craves A Word With You"
May 1886
Piece of wood from Van der Heuvel/Burnham house
1798-1839
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
1911
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
1810
Baseball "Striker" and Pitcher
1868
INV.245
Bacchus
ca. 1840-50
Joseph Keppler, Sr. (1838-1894)
1894
George Washington (1732-1799)
Early 19th century
Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Son)
Early 18th century
Christopher Columbus (1446-1506)
ca. 1835-1845
Porcelain woman with rose patterned skirt and green cowboy jacket
2000
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
1887
Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman (1851-1932)
1924
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
1836
Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878-1937)
1937
Thomas L. Chadbourne (1862-1938)
1939
Politics
1888
Decorative mount/blade
1800-1900
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1860
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Early 20th century
Frank Talbott, Jr.
1963
A Saddled Horse
Early 20th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1922
Seal of the State of New York
ca. 1840-1880
INV.1319ab
Plaque commemorating Washington Irving
1890-1910
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Mrs. Philip M. Lydig (1879-1929)
1928
Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
1803
Horse on base
1800-1900
Isaac Wyman Drummond (1855-1933)
1912
Blade fragment
ca. 1800
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)
ca. 1872
Left hand of Ernest Henry Schelling (1876-1939)
1940
Chalkware (love birds)
1850-1890
Box
1885
Carved panel with ale shop
1875-1925
Chalkware (pinecone)
1850-1890
Woodcarving (poodle)
ca. 1870
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 19th century
Statuettes (pair)
1870-1910
Chalkware (love birds)
1850-1890
Unidentified man
Mid-19th century
Medallion (Plaster seal cast with latin inscription)
1880-1920
Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Husband)
Early 18th century
Sophie Frances Hurlbut (1833-1880)
1853
Joseph P. Day (1873-1944)
1924
George Washington (1732-1799)
Mid-19th century
Plaque: presented by State Insurance Fund...N-YHS, 1933-58
1958
George Westinghouse (1846-1914)
1925
School Days
September 1877
Checker Players
1860
Plaque.
1904
Returned Volunteer: How The Fort Was Taken
1864
Doorway from Beekman mansion
1763
Woodcarving (rooster on base)
1870-1920
The Town Pump
1862
Plaque
1700-1780
Chalkware (cat) Chalkware (cat)
1850-1890
Chalkware (dog)
1850-1890
The Elder's Daughter
1886
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
1834
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century
Benjamin Fordyce Barker, M. D. (1818-1891)
ca. 1860
Pair of desktop call buttons
ca. 1915
The Shaughraun and "Tatters"
April 1875
Corbel
1750-1775
Whigs and Conservatives Memorial Stone
1838
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
ca. 1815
George Washington (1732-1799)
Mid-19th century
Woodcarving (leaf fragment)
1825-1925
Francois Joseph Talma
ca. 1850
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
1904
Wooden egg
1800-1900
Unidentified woman
Late 18th century
The Referee
1880
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1911
Pair of pedestals
Mid 19th century
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Reclining Cupid
1760-1800
John Marshall (1755-1835)
1835
Katharine Cornell (1893-1974)
1961
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
1919
Pierre Lecompte du Nouy (1883-1947)
1948
Plaque
ca. 1917
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
1860-1870
Mrs. Wynn Lawrence Le Page (Agnes Yarnell)
1925
Alphonse Marie Louis de Part de Lamartine (1790-1869)
1854
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Mid-19th century
Architectural ornament
ca. 1880
Landing Of The Norsemen
1893
Pilaster
1760-1810
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864)
1860
Horse figurine
1850-1900
Woodcarving (cow)
The Traveling Magician
November 1877
Mrs. John Rogers, Sr. (1805-1877)
1874
Rebecca
1857
Woodcarving (rooster)
1870-1920
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
1930
The Picket Guard
1861
Woodcarving (lion)
ca. 1870
Chalkware (rooster)
1850-1890
Checker Players
1860
Diana of the Chase
ca. 1922
George Washington (1732-1799)
ca. 1850
Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820)
Possibly late 19th century
Blind Man's Bluff, Santa Claus
1876
Francis Lister Hawks, D.D. (1798-1866)
ca. 1858
George Washington (1732-1799)
1858 (patented)
Mrs. William Gage Lambert (1797-1875)
1848
Plaque: presented State Insurance Fund,Award..1955.-YHS
1955
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1912
The First Ride
June 1888
Courtship In Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel
1868
David Francis Green
ca. 1840
Hickson Woolman Field (1788-1873)
ca. 1835
Chalkware (dog)
1850-1890
Woodcarving: Rooster W/2 eyebolts and screw
1870-1920
Unidentified man
ca. 1800
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1861
Chalkware (bust of a woman)
1850-1890
Chalkware (seated boy)
1850-1890
Wounded To The Rear, One More Shot
1864
Plaque
ca. 1865
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
After 1809
Portrait of Ann Rainey
1927
The Council Of War
February 1868
Mantel
1760-1810
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
1930
Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843)
ca. 1840
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)
1831
"Ha! I Like Not That!"
1882
Taking The Oath And Drawing Rations
1865
William Francis Gibbs (1886-1967)
1955
Bayard Dodge (1887/8-1972)
1962
Unidentified man
Late 18th century
The Photographer
1878
Indian Chief Joseph
1911
Reverend Thomas Church Brownell, D.D. (1779-1865)
1860
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Coachman
ca. 1865
John Alsop King (1788-1867)
ca. 1855
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
1920
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
ca. 1910
Woodcarving (male figure)
1850-1900
Plaque
1950
Woodcarving (dog)
1850-1900
Unidentified woman
1960
The Charity Patient
1866
Tablet
1840-1857
Wax reduction for head of THE RECORDING ANGEL
2006
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
ca. 1800-1805
Pilaster
1760-1810
Rip Van Winkle Returned
December 1871
Dr. John Osgood Stone (1813-1876)
1868
Marshall Field III (1893-1956)
1958
Whirligig
1875-1900
Johanna Marie ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid 19th century
Woodcarving (squirrel)
ca. 1890-1920
Pere Hyacinthe (1828-1912)
1870
Door handle, latch and back plate
1680-1750
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
Mid-19th century
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
1887
Unidentified woman
Mid-19th century
Woodcarving (parrot)
ca. 1870
Woodcarving (eagle)
The Tap on the Window
1874
Eagle
ca. 1899
George Washington (1732-1799)
ca. 1785-1828
Washington
1875
Hide And Seek: Whoop!
1874
Francis Lister Hawks, D.D. (1798-1866)
ca. 1862
General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794)
Late 19th century
Elihu Burritt (1810-1897)
Mid-19th century
Plaque: The Belmont Stakes 1896...
1896
Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935)
1936
"Why Don't You Speak For Yourself, John?"
1884
John Rogers III (1866-1939)
1871
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
ca. 1800
Diedrich Knickerbocker
ca. 1850-1867
Woodcarving (rooster)
ca. 1870
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
1922
portrait plaque: Washington
Quentin Crisp
ca. 1998
Chalkware (cat and mouse)
1850-1890
Chalkware (mantel ornament: leaf spray)
1850-1890
The Shaughraun and "Tatters"
1875
John James Audubon (1785-1851) (after Robert Havell Jr.)
ca. 1955
John Christopher Kunze, D.D. (1744-1807)
Early 19th century
The Camp Fire: Making Friends with the Cook
January 1862
The Four Seasons
ca. 1912
Wounded To The Rear, One More Shot
1864
Posts (2)
1800-1900
William Paley (1901-1990)
1934
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1821)
1816
Napoleon Bonaparte, (1796-1821), Apollo Belvedere
Mid-19th century
The Fugitive's Story
1869
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
ca. 1800
Pierre Simon LaPlace (1749-1827)
Mid-19th century
Stanley Field
1931
Mrs. James Roosevelt (1855-1941)
1940
Rip Van Winkle Returned
1871
The Puritan
1899
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Late 19th Century
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Right Hand of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1886
Ivan Mestrovic (1883-1962)
1925
De Witt Clinton (1769-1828)
ca. 1825
Country Post Office: News From The Army
1863
Eagle ornament for flag staff
1930-1945
Plaque
1950
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
ca. 1851
Black Magi
ca. 1750
Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Wife)
Early 18th century
The Charity Patient
October 1866
Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial
2007
Reverend Charles Washington Baird, D.D. (1828-1887)
1887
Mantel
1760-1810
Ichabod Crane and the "Headless Horseman"
December 1887
George Ludwig Christian Scriba (1753-1836)
ca. 1800-1810
Dr. Sanford Gifford (1892-1944)
1944
The Picket Guard
1861
Plaque: Jenny Lind
1850-1880
Commemorative plaque
ca. 1859
INV.102
Brick
1650-1750
Candace T. Wheeler (ca. 1848-1876)
1863
Triumph of Justinian
1858
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
1950
Woodcarving (squirrel)
ca. 1870
Home Guard: Midnight On The Border
1865
Phrenology At The Fancy Dress Ball
1886
George Washington (1732-1799)
Early 19th century
James Greenleaf Croswell (ca. 1852-1915)
1918
Wax-Relief Portrait of a Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Daughter).
Early 18th century
Francis Lister Hawks, D.D. (1798-1866)
ca. 1862
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
1825
Woodcarving (man holding chicken)
1850-1900
Plaque
ca. 1909
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 19th century
Coming To The Parson
October 1870
Faust and Marguerite, Their First Meeting
1890
William Astor Chanler (1867-1934)
1910
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
1853 (patented)
Chalkware (church)
1850-1890
Football
1891
General James Bowen (1808-1886)
ca. 1840
James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959)
1895
Woodcarving (dog)
General Winfield Scott (1786-1866)
Mid-19th century
Coming To The Parson
1870
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
1849
Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Son)
Early 18th century
Courtship In Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel
1868
Cover plate
ca. 1930
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Brick
1650-1750
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
1948
Woodcarving (Stooping male figure)
1850-1900
The Fisher Girl
1860
Returned Volunteer: How The Fort Was Taken
1864
General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
1891
Professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966)
1962
Mrs. George G. Frelinghuysen
1935
George Ludwig Christian Scriba
ca. 1789
Neighboring Pews
1883
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
ca. 1793
David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)
1867
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Unidentified Woman Riding a Lion
Late 19th century
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
1924
Mrs. John James Audubon (Lucy Green Bakewell, 1787-1874)
1960
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Late 19th century
The Sitter
1878
Archibald McVickar (1789-1851)
1815
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1915
George William Curtis (1824-1892)
ca. 1880
Ernest Taylor Pyle ("Ernie," 1900-1945)
1944
Head of Alice in Wonderland
ca. 1959
George Washington (1732-1799)
1878
Ventilator and weathervane
1825-1875
Weighing The Baby
1876
George Ludwig Christian Scriba (1753-1836)
ca. 1800-1810
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941)
1941
Woodcarving (Male christ figure w/detachable legs)
1870-1920
Robert Dodge (1820-1899)
1873
Chalkware (rabbit)
1850-1890
INV.751
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
1904
Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
Early 20th century
Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
1917
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) plate
ca. 1990-2010
Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899)
1901
The Foundling
1870
George Washington (1732-1799)
1876
William Earl Dodge, Sr. (1805-1883)
1888
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
1837
General John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948)
ca. 1920
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1792-1800
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
1914
Portrait medallion on wooden panel
1919
Harris Fahnestock (1869-1939)
1937
Rip Van Winkle At Home
December 1871
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
1958
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957)
1927
The Indian Hunter
1860
Chalkware (mantel ornament: a spray of fruit and leaves)
1850-1890
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
1846-1847
Dr. Albert Simard
1930
Daniel James (1801-1876)
1866-67
Unidentified man
1958
Louis P. Durr (1821-1880)
ca. 1884
Rip Van Winkle at Home
1871
Wood fragments from Burnham's Tavern
ca. 1792
Earl of Lauderdale
1806
William Pitt, the Elder, First Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
ca. 1770
Flag
2001
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Late 19th century
Brick
1700-1750
Richard Hoffman, III (nephew of the artist)
1917
Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
1909
Mrs. John Archibold (Lucy)
1949
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1861
Henry Hudson (d. 1611)
ca. 1938
Miss Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
1929
Victor Granados
1943
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
1809
Bubbles
1873
One of a pair of vases with covers and stands
1740-1760
The Peddler At The Fair
1878
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Left hand of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1886
Edmund Pendleton (?)
1839
Roman Head, possibly Achilles
Possibly of classical origin, ca. 400
Plaque
1850-1900
Woodcarving (rooster)
1870-1920
Sesquicentennial medal (mounted replica)
1954
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid-19th Century
Milliner's head
1820-1870
Young buck
20th century
Sidney Hillman (1887-1946)
1939
Dormouse
ca. 1959
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 19th century
Unidentified man
Late 19th century
The Favored Scholar
1873
William Henry Seward (1801-1872)
1930
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1919-1920
Woodcarving (male figure)
1850-1900
Rooster weathervane
ca. 1860
Chalkware (seated unidentified boy)
1850-1890
Sharp Shooters
1862
Woodcarving (rooster)
1870-1920
Joshua Brookes (1773-1859)
ca. 1845-1850
The Hiker
1904
Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg)
1990-2016
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
1901
The School Examination
1867
George Washington (1732-1799)
ca. 1817
Washington
1875
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
William Adams Delano (1874-1960)
1944
George Washington (1732-1799)
Late 18th century-early 19th century
Unidentified man, possibly Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Mid-19th century
Figurine: Amish woman
1900-1940
Milliner's head
1820-1870
Uncle Ned's School
December 1866
Mrs. John Theodore Saxe (ca. 1850-1881)
1871
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
1956
Mrs. John Jones Schermerhorn (ca. 1810-1840)
1837
Chalkware (deer)
1850-1890
Pedestal for sculpture "Faust and Marguerite - Their First Meeting"
ca. 1885
Venus Italica
Mid-19th century
Carved painted owl on base
1780-1820
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1777
Plaque
ca. 1909
Returned Volunteer: How The Fort Was Taken
1864
Elgin Marbles (reproduction)
1811-1823
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
ca. 1800
George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885)
ca. 1860-1862
Flag
2001
The Mock Trial: Argument for the Prosecution
1877
Plaque:..July 12, 1812, Down; Paris, St. Germain...
1892
Mrs. Edwin Denison Morgan (Elizabeth Emmet, 1897-1934)
1935
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877-1965)
1949
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1943
Woodcarving (bird)
1850-1900
The Traveling Magician
1877
Faust and Marguerite
ca. 1870-1880
Samuel Bonarios Grimson
1924
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
1777
The Mock Trial: Argument for the Prosecution
1877
One of a pair of vases with covers and stands
1740-1760
A Matter of Opinion
1884
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Eugene Field (1850-1895)
Late 19th/Early 20th century
Mikhail Mordkin (1881-1944)
ca. 1910
A Dog Stretching
Late 19th century
Arm of David Rogers (1876-1943)
1879
Johanna Marie ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid 19th century
Giovanni da Verrazzano (?)
ca. 1880-1920
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
ca. 1836
Henry Hudson Monument
1909
George Washington (1732-1799)
ca. 1794
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Late 19th century
Graffiti door
1970s
General Winfield Scott (1786-1866)
ca. 1850-1860
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
1855
Augustus VanHorne Stuyvesant, Sr. (1838-1918)
ca. 1923
Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)
1846
Pedestal for sculpture "Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
ca. 1885
Woodcarving (male figure carrying jugs)
1850-1900
Metalwork (eagle): Building ornament
1800-1850
Chalkware (squirrel with nut)
1850-1890
John Jay (1745-1829)
1792
Mrs. Richard Hoffman (1848-1921)
1919
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
1934
Wolf and Lamb
ca. 1870
John A. Devereux (1859-1954)
1871
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg) (one of a set of five)
20th century
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)
ca. 1930
Achilles and Penthesilea
1857
John Watts (1749-1836)
ca. 1835-1845
"Why Don't You Speak for Yourself, John?"
1884
Joseph Clay Neal (1807-1847)
Mid-19th century
Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman (1829-1902)
1898
Woodcarving (chicken)
1850-1890
Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858)
ca. 1940
Figurines (4)
1900-1940
The Wrestlers
1881
Rooster
1940
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1860
Amerique
ca. 1840
Constant Freeman
Late 18th century
Chalkware (poodle)
1850-1890
John James Audubon (1785-1851) (after Robert Havell Jr.)
1907
The Primitive Marksman
1907
Woodcarving (rooster)
1870-1920
Stone block/door stop
1800-1900
Chalkware (pecking chickens)
1850-1890
Woodcarving: male figure holding barrel
1850-1900
John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945)
1900
R. Orr - Paisley
1803
Fighting Bob
1889
Bell/buzzer unit
ca. 1970
Unidentified man (Bowen family?)
ca. 1830-40
Pedestals (pair)
1880-1910
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
Patented 1855
1952.147
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
1929
Carved Bird
1850-1900
Seminole Chief Osceola (1804-1838)
ca. 1838
Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
1931
Richard Hoffman (1831-1909)
1909
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
1934
Landing Of The Norsemen
1893
The Fugitive's Story
September 7, 1869
"Madam, Your Mother Craves A Word With You"
1886
Stained glass window
1825-1850
Laura Derby Rogers (1879-1897)
1891
Anne Morgan (1873-1952)
1937
Horse
Late 19th century
Stand for figurine
1849
Floyd Jones
Early 19th century
Plaster relief
1860-1924
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid-19th century
John Pintard (1759-1844)
1857
N-YHS Gold Medal for Achievement in History
1925
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
1925
Architectural fragments from the exterior of the Audubon Ballroom (2)
ca. 1912

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