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Declaration of Independence
Date:
1820-1823
Object Number:
PR.221.44
Medium:
Engraving

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Max Mathews and his Radio Batons, © Peter Menzel / menzelphoto.com
“Bell Labs Engineers working on Telstar 1”, ca 1961. Courtesy of Alcatel-Lucent / Bell Labs.
Unidentified artist, Vote American Labor Party; Roosevelt and Lehman, 1936. Lithograph on paper. Collection of Merrill C. Berman.
Phil Ochs (1940–76), Cora Weiss (b.1934) and Dan Luce, The War is Over!, 1975.
IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator Operator Console, 1948. Courtesy of IBM Corporation Archives.
'Daughter of U. S. Secretary of State tries new Toronto discovery,'
August 17, 1922
Photograph of Elizabeth Hughes with her mother
summer, 1918
Insulin Vacuum Drier
1923
J. L, 3 years, December 15, 1922; J.L., Weight 29 lbs, February 15, 1923
December 15, 1922 ; February 15, 1923
Photograph of laboratory 221
1929
Insulin Filling, 1923
1923
Early Insulin
I Am a Diabetic card
Untitled
2001
Untitled
2001
Dust Covered Transit Police
2001
Untitled
2001
Untitled
2001
Untitled
2001
Untitled
2001
The Pedlar
1836
Peter Stuyvesant and the Trumpeter
1835
Farmers Bargaining (later known as Bargaining for a Horse)
1835
Chryseis Returned to her Father
1771
Aeneas and Creusa
1771
Jacob's Dream
1852
Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War
1862
Sunday Morning
1839
The Cavalier's Return
1847
The Last of the Race
1847
The Indian Hunter
1860
The Puritan
1899
Sowing the Word
1868
Saint Nicholas
1837-1838
The Intelligence Office
1849
The Sidewalks of New York
1859
The Window (later known as A Window, House on Hudson River)
1863
Pilgrims Going to Church
1867
Princess Elizabeth in the Tower
1860
The Wind Mill
ca. 1858
Negro Life at the South
1859
Thomas Clarkson's African Box
Common Sense
1776
Vue de l'incendie de la ville du Cap Français
1795
Member's desk from Federal Hall
ca. 1788
Haitian Declaration of Independence
1804
Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803)
after 1832
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; with its Ancient and Modern State
ca. 1805
Le General Washington
1780
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)
ca. 1700
Bottle stands (pair)
1770-1776
Controller handle
1904
Salver
1772-1773
Teaspoon
ca. 1720-1740
Table knife and fork from Adolf Hitler’s dinner service
1939
Teapot
1663-1719
Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902)
1840
Wedding dress
early 18th century with later alterations
Tankard
ca. 1793
Coffeepot
1775-1776
Ring
1600-1712
Tankard
1712
Ice cream dish
1877-1878
Pitcher
ca. 1850
Aeronautical trophy
1907
Cigar box
1930
Carolina Meat and Vegetable Market
1970
65 East 125th Street
1977
Astor Row
2008
All Saints Roman Catholic Church
1993
Street Evangelist
2008
2371 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
2001
East 118th Street at 2nd Avenue
1991
Formula 50
2005
Frederick Douglass Boulevard at West 135th Street
2008
253 West 125th Street
2008
Swing Low
2008
Liberty/Liberté
History Under Your Feet floorcases
Keith Haring's "Pop Shop" Ceiling
New York and the American Experience
New York Rising
Section of water pipe
ca. 1804
Cutting Ice, Rockland Lake, N.Y.
ca. 1890
Ceramic mug
1915
Bar Tray, “Jacob Ruppert Beer-Ale”
1900-1930
Rheingold Extra Dry / Lager Beer
1950-1960
George Ehret’s Hell Gate Brewery
Fresh Cool Lager Beer
1877-1894
Rheingold Recipes: A Cook Book of Quality. . .
1912
Page from William D. Faulkner Account Books
1779
Repeal / 18th Amendment
1920-1930
No Repeal: State of New York / July 4, 1855
ca. 1856
Bill Cunningham
Riverside Hospital—North Brother Island
A discourse upon vaccination, or, Kine-pock inoculation: with remarks upon the occasional prevalence of the small-pox, and the measures necessary to prevent it.
At the Gates, Our Safety Depends upon Official Vigilance.
Certificate of Protection from Smallpox
1902
Certificate of Vaccination
1882
The Killer that Stalked New York
1950
Liberty and King George 1
Liberty and King George 2
Liberty and King George 3
Liberty and King George 4
Liberty and King George 5
The Course of Empire: The Savage State
1833-1836
The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State
1833-1836
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
1833-1836
The Course of Empire: Destruction
1833-1836
The Course of Empire: Desolation
1833-1836
" . . . and the Wolf chewed up the children,"
1941
“Brassieres . . . A Vital Necessity to Women at War tear sheet,”
January 14, 1943
No. 2, Main Control Panel, Nerve Center of Ship
1944
Don't miss your great opportunity— The Navy needs you in the WAVES
1944
Embarkation—Prelude to Death (Year of Peril)
1942
Charlie Parker Residence
Undated
Joseph Papp Public Theater
Undated
Phelps Stokes – J. P. Morgan Jr. House (Also known as the Morgan Library)
Undated
Woolworth Building
Undated
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Undated
Loew’s Paradise Theater – First Floor Interior
Undated
Rockefeller Center
Undated
Harlem River Houses
Undated
The Parachute Jump
Undated
Four Seasons Restaurant
Undated
The Unisphere and surrounding pool and fountains
Undated
Untitled
2012
Untitled
2011
Untitled
Undated
Untitled
2009
Gift of Life
2009
Untitled
Undated
“I Have a Dream”
1977
Untitled
1990
I Have a Dream
2006
To Take Lead in Social Reform
2006
Northern Parula (Parula americana), Study for Havell pl. no. 15
1821
Unidentified artist, Free Angela Davis, ca.1970 –72
Stephen Somerstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Looks out at crowd in Montgomery, 1965. Courtesy of the photographer
Two women wiring the right side of the ENIAC with a new program, ca. 1946. Courtesy US Army. Standing: Marlyn Wescoff, Crouching: Ruth Lichterman.
Door with graffiti tags from the studio of Jack Stewart
1970s
Mrs. Jacob Wendel
1888
Minsky’s Chorus
1935
Hudson Bay Fur Company
1932
BMT Fourteenth Street
1932
Pip and Flip
1932
Harlem, Tuesday Night at the Savoy
1932
A group advocating AIDS research marches down Fifth Avenue during the 14th annual Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in New York
June 27, 1983
[First AIDS Memorial Service in New York City, Central Park Bandshell]
June 13, 1983
Gay Protesters on Gay Pride Day
July 1, 1985
Mayor Edward I. Koch at a Press Conference to Announce the City’s Establishment of the Office of Gay and Lesbian Health Concerns, Designed to Help in the Fight Against AIDS
1983
[Parents Protesting Board of Education]
1985
Stephen Somerstein, civil rights marchers with American flags march in Montgomery, 1965. Courtesy of the photographer
Stephen Somerstein, two mothers with children watching marchers, 1965. Courtesy of the photographer
Stephen Somerstein, "Things Go Better With Coke" sign and multi-generational family watching marchers, 1965. Courtesy of the photographer
Stephen Somerstein, marchers on the way to Montgomery as families watch from their porches, 1965. Courtesy of the photographer
St. Paul’s Chapel, New York City
ca. 1968-1976
Grand Central Terminal, New York City
ca. 1968-1976
Central Park bridge, New York City
ca. 1968-1976
Editta Sherman on the Subway
ca. 1968-1976
GM Building, New York City
ca. 1968-1976
Self-Portrait, 1985. Ink on board. Melvin R. Seiden Collection of Drawings by Al Hirschfeld, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Ella Fitzgerald, 1993. Ink on board. Melvin R. Seiden Collection of Drawings by Al Hirschfeld, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Unidentified artist, Free Angela Davis, ca.1970 –72.
Jay Belloli, Berkeley, California, Amerika is Devouring Its Children, 1970.
Photography attributed to Blair Stapp, Composition by Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton seated in wicker chair, 1967.
Plate: Arms of the United States...
ca. 1815-1840
Creamer: copper lustre blue band w/Rose Motif
Elihu Root (1845-1937)
ca. 1930
Henry W. Peck
Capture of H.B.M. Sloop 'Frolic' by U.S. Sloop of War 'Wasp'
19th century
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
n.d.
Claude Gallatin
James H. Ledlie
Cyrus West Field (1819-1892)
1887
Taxi Stand at Greeley Square, New York City
c. 1910-11
Captain James Lawrence Naval Medal
After 1840
Jonathan Warren Kellogg (1780-1853)
Section of wooden water pipe
1770-1800
East River, N.Y.C.
1928
Abel I. Smith (1877-1949)
The Spinet
n.d.
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
While the Wheel Hums
1906
Section of water pipe
1770-1805
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
The First Letter
1865
(Landscape Fragment) Autumn Foliage
19th century
E.L. Robbins (1811-?)
1839
Haying at the Edge of the Woods
ca. 1850
Dregs in the Cup (Fortune Telling, the Fortune Teller)
1838
Study for "June"
ca. 1870
Mrs. George Coggeshall, (Sarah B.)
ca. 1840
Trees in Autumn Foliage by a Stream
19th century
Butter mold
1825-1875
Roman Campagna, Lago Di Bracciano
1866
John A. Luqueer (1814-1866)
ca. 1855
Luther Bradish (1783-1863)
1856
U.S. Ships-of-the-Line and Frigates Delaware and North Carolina, Brandywine, and Constellation
1800-1899
Savoyard Musician
ca. 1836
Game of Lost Heir
ca. 1885
Polo
1879
School Days
September 1877
The First Ride
June 1888
"Why Don't You Speak For Yourself, John?"
1884
Coming To The Parson
October 1870
Miniature bowl of fruit and bottles (2)
1900-1920
Rip Van Winkle At Home
December 1871
Uncle Ned's School
December 1866
Rooster
1940
Declaration of Independence
Politics
September 1888
The Wrestlers
1881
"Is It So Nominated In The Bond?"
March 1880
Pitcher
ca. 1725-1825
Neighboring Pews
December 1883
Faust and Marguerite: Their First Meeting
1890
Rip Van Winkle On The Mountain
1871
Forcing The Hudson River Passage
ca. 1835
East Side Street
1921
Unidentified Lady
c. 1835
Miniature flasks (2)
1875-1900
Miniature mugs (pair)
1875-1900
Albert Sutton
ca. 1835-1840
Ann Stevens Macgregor (ca. 1800-?)
ca. 1835
Landscape with River, Figures
1891
Madonna with Infant Christ and St. John
19th century
Gloucester Fishing Boat
1941
The Connoiseur
John Bainbridge and daughter
The Abeel Children
ca. 1852-1855
William Stephen Van Rensselaer (1886-1930)
1929
Winter in Holland
1859
Coach With Team and Drivers
1901
A Privateersman Ashore
1893
Mrs. Abraham Caulkins Lay (1830-1918)
1865
Landscape
1849
Miniature goblet
1875-1900
Mrs. William Hustace (1823-1906)
ca. 1850-1855
George Hubert Herbert (1872-1949)
ca. 1915
Figured flask
1850-1855
Cutting Ice, Rockland Lake, N.Y.
ca. 1890
Miss Marie Reed (ca. 1868-1893)
1892
Footed dish
Figured flask
1835-1855
Aaron Vail (1796-1878)
ca. 1845
European Landscape
1845
Beach Snipe Shooting
1868
Figured flask
1835-1855
Figured flask
1815-1830
Elizabeth King Hawley de Groot (1833-1926)
c. 1900
Joseph Sollace Bosworth (1807-1884)
1925
Trivet
1850-1860
Madison Cottage in 1853
1866
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Jonathan Haight, Jr. (1810-1890)
1854
Butter mold
1825-1875
Sheep in Pasture
1862
The Fight at Concord Bridge, April 19, 1775
n.d.
A British Grenadier
1904
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Brennan House, Bloomingdale, N.Y.C.
n.d.
Mrs. William Wills
1856
Verplanck Mansion, Plum Point, New York
1870
Copy of an Earlier Portrait of Baron Gaspard Gabriel De Gallatin (1758-1838)
1931
The Violinist - Carnegie Hall
1955
Tobias I. Tobias (1785/86-1861)
1878
Butter mold
ca. 1800-1850
J. P. Sherwood
ca. 1835
Female Child with Horse
Park Scene with Figures on Benches
1931
Study of Sleeping Girl
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
The (James Ludlow) Morton Album
ca. 1820s-30s
Unidentified woman
ca. 1800
M. Durand
ca. 1845-1850
Drawer pull: handle
1875-1920
Chess
1889
The Peddler At The Fair
1878
Pitcher: copper lustre ochre bands
Stuyvesant Le Roy (1836-1897)
ca. 1845
The Elder's Daughter
1886
Wounded To The Rear, One More Shot
1864
The Shaughraun and "Tatters"
1875
Coming To The Parson
1870
Rip Van Winkle at Home
1871
Returned Volunteer: How The Fort Was Taken
1864
John Willet
Woodcarving: male figure holding barrel
1850-1900
Wagon seat
1850-1900
French Actors Fund plaquette
1916
Cartridge box
1850-1900
Medal: eagle
Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1925
Coin: half dollar, Daniel Boone bicentennial, 1934
George Washington (1732-1799)
n.d.
Mrs. Joseph Pollock Dunsmore (1827-1912)
1881
Stormy Day, New York Harbor, NYC
ca. 1820
Napoleon
Rondout from Kingston, N.Y.
ca. 1870
Platter: Mendenhall Ferry
1790-1829
Frederic De Peyster (1731-1773)
1765
Washington Square, New York City
1939
Jesse Hawley (1773-1842)
ca. 1825-1830
Edward Jones (1812-1869)
ca. 1860-1865
Reformed Dutch Church of Bushwick, Brooklyn, N.Y.C.
n.d.
Miss Withers
1922
Button stud: Medical Society, State of New York
Coin: half dollar, Sesquicentenneal, 1776-1926
The Story of the Battle
1905
George Hancock (1798-1875)
ca. 1865
Scene in the Catskills, NY
n.d.
Baron Jean Gallatin
Madeleine de Gallatin
Clasp
ca. 1820
Anne Van Rensselaer (1719-1791)
ca. 1735-37
The Old Five Points, New York City
1855
Undercliff near Cold Spring, NY, Seat of General George Morr
n.d.
Thomas Cole's First Studio, Catskill, NY
1881
James Duane (1733-1797)
ca. 1784
Medal w/ribbon in box:Industry of all Nations 1853
Pin: July 1936.10189 Bathing Belmar Beach
Pin: Belmar Bathing, 1933.14384
Coin in envelope: Cistophorus-silver coin of Augustus
Vase
1875-1900
Road Team - Winner of the Vanderbilt Gold Cup
1917
Madonna and Child
ca. 1575-1600
Rembrandt
1830
Bowl
1850-1925
The Great Fall River Line Between Boston & New York
n.d.
Bowl
1850-1925
Passaic Falls, Totowa, New Jersey
1801-1824
Glass cradle
1880-1910
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Mrs. James Wilson
ca. 1870
National Academy of Design, N.Y.C
1899
Blockhouse No. 4, in Morningside Park, N.Y.C
ca. 1900-1910
Building the 8th Ave. Subway
20th century
Schermerhorn House
ca. 1900-1910
2 tokens: N.Y.C. Transit Authority Tokens
Coin: USA, 1867 lll
1867
Metal on Card w/ribbon: Souvenir of Tunnel,March 24,1900
1900
East 54th Street and East River, N.Y.C
ca. 1900-1910
East 54th Street and East River
ca. 1900-1910
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Old Mosholu School
ca. 1900-1910
Peter Cooper House, NYC
1907
Butter mold
1825-1875
Colonnade Row, Lafayette Street, N.Y.C
1902
Figures of Revolutionary War Officers
1906
Summer. A Broken Axletree. American Wood Scene, near Thornville, Ohio.: Study for an Aquatint in "Harvey's Scenes..."
before 1841
Portrait of Jo Davidson (1883-1952)
before 1948
David Livingston
Captain David Bush
1812
David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)
Mid-19th century
Cup
1775-1825
Study At Marbletown, Ulster County, N.Y.
ca. 1845
Pin: Deputy Sheriff, 1900-1901
Badge
George Washington Bowen (1794-1885)
1885
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Mid-19th century
INV.714
John Jay (1745-1829)
circa 1792
Andrew H. Mickle (1804-1863)
ca. 1846
Country Post Office: News From The Army
1863
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
ca. 1865
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
ca. 1865
Joseph Keppler, Sr. (1838-1894)
1894
Soup ladle
ca. 1840
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
1904
William Francis Gibbs (1886-1967)
1955
Badge
ceremonial ribbon: S.S. Levy
ca. 1943
Badge
Soup ladle
1845-1899
View of a War Garden, on the Hudson River, New York City
1918
Plate
1812-1830
Printed textile of plan of NYC
ca. 1834
William Bayard (1761-1826)
ca. 1818-1820
Lighthouse, Barcelona, N.Y.
1896
Silver Morning, Old Lyme, Connecticut
ca. 1925
Fern Stewart
ca. 1900-1910
John William Greenwood (1804-1838)
ca. 1830-1835
The Geographer
ca. 1925
Mrs. Alexander Cooper (1782-1865)
1840
The Canyon
1898
Isaac Greenwood (1730-1803)
ca. 1791
Badge
Badge
Medal
Fly trap and cover
1860-1900
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
ca. 1941
Capital and Labor
1881
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893)
1942
Philip W. Engs (1790-1875)
ca. 1815-1820
Coach and Four with Figures
1922
Hat
1880-1910
Hat
1890-1920
Maine Coast
n.d.
"Just Strolling Around"
1927
Hat
1875-1925
Landscape
1848
Mrs. Benjamin Aymar (1791-1843)
ca. 1840
Eagle with American Shield
19th century
Badge
Button
Medallion: Intl. livestock expo
Buttons: Rockefeller
View of Blackwell's Island, East River, N.Y.C
ca. 1862
Pierre Simon LaPlace (1749-1827)
Mid-19th century
Mrs. Theodore Dwight, Jr. (1805-1870)
1828
Mrs. James Benedict
Mrs. John Paradise
n.d.
Hat
1890-1920
John Paradise (1783-1833)
n.d.
Hat
1880-1920
Pitcher
ca. 1850
Medallion
Plate
Bowl
1800-1850
Buttons
Buttons
1922
Button
Button
Washbowl and pitcher
1849-1858
Beaker
1850-1900
Cup
1800-1850
Luggage tag
1960-1980
Dish
1950-1980
Beaker
1850-1900
Pewter plate
ca. 1800
Plate w/wall hanging apparatus
1750-1800
Pewter plate w/wall hanging apparatus
1750-1800
Luncheon fork
ca. 1835
Stock ticker machine and printing mechanism stand
1890
Buttons
Pin w/ Ribbon: Society Army of the Potomic, May 25-26, 1900
ca. 1900
Ribbon: In Memorium
Professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966)
1962
Miss Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
1929
Faust and Marguerite
ca. 1870-1880
Cupboard base
1750-1800
Steamboat "Broadway"
1858
Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
1931
Private Theatricals, Last Moments Behind The Scenes
1878
Unidentified man
1928
Figurine
ca. 1900
Fish trap
1825-1900
Hugh J. Grant (1853-1910)
Late 19th century
Study for an Illustration: Portrait of Fiorello Henry La Guardia (1882-1947)
c. 1941
Badge w/medal
George Washington (1732-1799)
Mid-19th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Flag patch
Button
Pin: Winchester
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Late 19th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid 19th century
Award medal: Van Wert, Paulding, and Williams
ca. 1930
Landscape with Cattle
1882-1883
Unidentified Woman: Silhouette
c. 1800
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
ca. 1941
Mrs. J. Phillip Schmand (1874-1968)
ca. 1895-1900
U.S. Cruiser "Chicago" in New York Harbor
ca. 1885
Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905)
ca. 1900
Emeline Smith Hawley (b. 1830)
ca. 1865
Mrs. Stephen S. Griswold
ca. 1860
Button
2 buttons
Button
Bar pin
Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C
1940
Hat
1860-1890
Madison Square Looking West
1940
Beatrice Cameron (1868-1940)
1891
Edwin Smith (1822-1906)
1847
Wool Spinning
1938
Egbert Benson (1746-1833)
ca. 1820
Tobacco jar with lid
1840-1880
Pitcher: Dewey
Lydia Latrobe Loring (1881-1948)
1900
Hat
1890-1920
Market Boats Entering Harbor
Landscape
n.d.
Ribbon: Lafayette
Button
Hat
1860-1890
Bay of Naples
ca. 1838-1840
View of New York Harbor
c. 1860
Washington Memorial
ca.1800
Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856)
c. 1856
Hat
1880-1920
Hat
1880-1920
Bracket clock
1779-1788
Plaza Auction House
ca. 1946
Oil lamp
1900-1910
Alphabet toy
1850-1900
View of the Ruins of the Greek Theater at Taormina and Mount Etna, Sicily
1868
Badge
Badge

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