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I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)

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J. L, 3 years, December 15, 1922; J.L., Weight 29 lbs, February 15, 1923
December 15, 1922 ; February 15, 1923
Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War
1862
Thomas Clarkson's African Box
Brandywine bowl (brandewijnkom)
ca. 1700
Controller handle
1904
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
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
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
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
Loew’s Paradise Theater – First Floor Interior
Undated
Rockefeller Center
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
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
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
Plate: Arms of the United States...
ca. 1815-1840
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Section of water pipe
1770-1805
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
The First Letter
1865
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
John A. Luqueer (1814-1866)
ca. 1855
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
Rip Van Winkle At Home
December 1871
Uncle Ned's School
December 1866
Rooster
1940
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
Unidentified Lady
c. 1835
Landscape with River, Figures
1891
John Bainbridge and daughter
The Abeel Children
ca. 1852-1855
Winter in Holland
1859
A Privateersman Ashore
1893
George Hubert Herbert (1872-1949)
ca. 1915
Cutting Ice, Rockland Lake, N.Y.
ca. 1890
Miss Marie Reed (ca. 1868-1893)
1892
Aaron Vail (1796-1878)
ca. 1845
European Landscape
1845
Figured flask
1835-1855
Madison Cottage in 1853
1866
Butter mold
1825-1875
Sheep in Pasture
1862
A British Grenadier
1904
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
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
Park Scene with Figures on Benches
1931
Unidentified woman
ca. 1800
Chess
1889
The Peddler At The Fair
1878
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
Rip Van Winkle at Home
1871
John Willet
French Actors Fund plaquette
1916
Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1925
Coin: half dollar, Daniel Boone bicentennial, 1934
Rondout from Kingston, N.Y.
ca. 1870
Jesse Hawley (1773-1842)
ca. 1825-1830
Edward Jones (1812-1869)
ca. 1860-1865
Miss Withers
1922
Coin: half dollar, Sesquicentenneal, 1776-1926
Anne Van Rensselaer (1719-1791)
ca. 1735-37
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
Coin in envelope: Cistophorus-silver coin of Augustus
Road Team - Winner of the Vanderbilt Gold Cup
1917
Madonna and Child
ca. 1575-1600
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Building the 8th Ave. Subway
20th century
Coin: USA, 1867 lll
1867
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Butter mold
1825-1875
Summer. A Broken Axletree. American Wood Scene, near Thornville, Ohio.: Study for an Aquatint in "Harvey's Scenes..."
before 1841
Captain David Bush
1812
Study At Marbletown, Ulster County, N.Y.
ca. 1845
George Washington Bowen (1794-1885)
1885
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Mid-19th century
John Jay (1745-1829)
circa 1792
Country Post Office: News From The Army
1863
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
ca. 1865
Soup ladle
ca. 1840
William Francis Gibbs (1886-1967)
1955
ceremonial ribbon: S.S. Levy
ca. 1943
Soup ladle
1845-1899
Printed textile of plan of NYC
ca. 1834
William Bayard (1761-1826)
ca. 1818-1820
Fern Stewart
ca. 1900-1910
The Canyon
1898
Isaac Greenwood (1730-1803)
ca. 1791
Fly trap and cover
1860-1900
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
ca. 1941
Capital and Labor
1881
"Just Strolling Around"
1927
Eagle with American Shield
19th century
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
Pitcher
ca. 1850
Washbowl and pitcher
1849-1858
Beaker
1850-1900
Cup
1800-1850
Beaker
1850-1900
Stock ticker machine and printing mechanism stand
1890
Professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966)
1962
Miss Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)
1929
Steamboat "Broadway"
1858
Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
1931
Private Theatricals, Last Moments Behind The Scenes
1878
Unidentified man
1928
Fish trap
1825-1900
Hugh J. Grant (1853-1910)
Late 19th century
George Washington (1732-1799)
Mid-19th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid 19th century
Award medal: Van Wert, Paulding, and Williams
ca. 1930
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
ca. 1941
U.S. Cruiser "Chicago" in New York Harbor
ca. 1885
Rockefeller Center, N.Y.C
1940
Edwin Smith (1822-1906)
1847
Tobacco jar with lid
1840-1880
Lydia Latrobe Loring (1881-1948)
1900
View of New York Harbor
c. 1860
Washington Memorial
ca.1800
Bracket clock
1779-1788
Plaza Auction House
ca. 1946
Oil lamp
1900-1910
View of the Ruins of the Greek Theater at Taormina and Mount Etna, Sicily
1868
Candlesticks
1600-1700
Candlestick
1650-1700
Dish
1740-1760
Spoon
ca. 1700-1750
Robert Benson (1739-1823)
1804
Madonna and Child with Donor
19th century
Madison Square, N.Y.C.
1926
Cup
1815-1830
Doing Nothing
1852
Steamship "Frederick VIII"
1914
Ye Boston Baked Beans
1886
New York Public Library Interior
ca. 1918
Pistol
1760-1783
Die
1800-1838
Campaign button: No Third Term
Colonel Philip Schuyler (1695-1745)
ca. 1720-1725
Salt
ca. 1830-1845
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), copy after Justus Sustermans (1597-1681)
18th century?
Christopher Colles (1738-1816)
ca. 1812
Autumn Woods
1886
Diana and Fawn
1939
Mold
1800-1870
Flask
1800-1850
Walrus tusk
1845-1910
Lydia Field Emmet (1866-1952)
1893
Plan of the City of Washington
ca. 1800
Ambrose Spencer (1765-1848)
ca. 1818
Manhood
1840
Portrait of Anna Elizabeth Macgregor (?-?)
c. 1850-55
The Confessional
ca. 1845-1850
Andirons (pair)
1790-1820
Unidentified woman
Bayonnet for Brown Bess
1750-1830
Primeval Forest
ca. 1854
Sunset, New York
1900
Still bank
1820-1880
Francis Robert Schell (after 1850-1928)
ca. 1855-1860
Nature Study
1853
Tree Study, Newburgh, N.Y.
1849
Two Trees
1851
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Early 20th century
Catskill Study, N.Y.
ca. 1870
Lake George, N.Y.
ca. 1867
The Pan of Milk
ca. 1858
S. Edson Gage (1865-1943)
1918
The Trumpeter
n.d.
World's Columbian Exposition "Half Dollar"
1893
Kerchief
1952
Paperweight with butterfly
1870-1900
Tablespoon
ca. 1860
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
1860-1870
Curling iron
Turn buckle
ca. 1898
Souvenir paperweight
1890-1900
Cornelis van der Geest
View Near Bridgeport, Connecticut
ca. 1850
Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer Life Saving Medal
ca. 1875
Study from Nature, Hoboken, N.J.
ca. 1834
Study from Nature, Hoboken, N.J.
ca. 1834
Bacchante And Satyr
ca. 1805-1807
The Flagstaff and Churn at the Battery, N.Y.C
1801-1824
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
After 1804
Moses Gambault
Landscape with Beech Tree
ca. 1845
Camouflage in 1917
1917
Joshua Jones (1757-1821)
ca. 1815
Steamboat "Mary Powell"
ca. 1860-90
Pitcher
1815-1850
Mrs. James Codwise (1756-1843)
ca. 1805
Robert Lenox (1759-1839)
1806
Mrs. John Trumbull
Melancthon Taylor Woolsey (1780-1838)
ca. 1820
William L. Hustace (1815-1899)
ca. 1850-1855
Perry's Fleet in Put-in-Bay on the Morning of the Battle of Lake Erie
n.d.
Luncheon in the Garden
Handgun model
ca. 1906
Paperweight
ca. 1847
Pastry plates
1850-1870
Scarf:
1936
Landscape with Fishermen
19th century
Family Group
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
ca. 1851
On Montauk, Long Island, N.Y.
1937
Forest life, encampment on the Penobscot
1860
Lewis Morris II
James Madison (1750/51-1836)
ca. 1820-1840
Mrs. Robert Brown (1780-1855)
ca. 1812
Ship in a Storm
1841
John Thomson (1812-1869)
ca. 1860
Near Shokan, Ulster County, New York
ca. 1854
Ruins of Christ Church, N.Y.C.
1847
Hut Camp of the 17th Regiment of Foot, Inwood Hill, N.Y.C.
1915
Mrs. John Howard Abeel
1858
De Peyster Girl, with a Lamb
ca. 1730-1735
Plate
1879-1885
Salt
ca. 1830-1840
Market, Night Scene
19th century?
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid-19th Century
Fruit bowl
1853-1870
Flat Iron Building, NY
Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry (1733-1760)
n.d.
Unidentified man (Welch family)
1925
John Livingston (1714-1786)
ca. 1750-1752
Dutch Singers
19th century
Welders
20th century
Unidentified Woman: Silhouette
c. 1800
Cornelius Steenwyck (? - 1684)
ca. 1670
Sarah Livingston Alexander (Mrs. William Alexander)
ca. 1750
Learning to Slide
ca. 1862
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
ca. 1836
Mrs. Augustus Washington Clason (ca. 1800-1822)
ca. 1820
Study of Pine and Cypress Trees, Italy
1860s
King Willilam III (1650-1702)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Mid-19th century
Nicket Edge Plate
1880-1910
Probably Napoleon Bonaparte
Catherine or Hitchcock Stuart
Subway Construction
20th century
Samuel Barker Harper (1777-1860)
ca. 1805-1815
Apothecary jar
1875-1900
Mrs. Peter Saxe (1790-1880)
n.d.
Mrs. James Madison (1768-1849)
ca. 1820-1840
John Jay Knox (1791-1876)
ca. 1840
Study of Four Tree Trunks (Three Birches)
ca. 1855
Bermuda Vignette: Workers Conversing in a Field
c. 1845
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
1941
Reverend Abraham Keteltas (1732-1798)
1758
James Gallatin (1796-1876)
ca.1822
Franconia, White Mountains
ca. 1857
Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
ca. 1781-1785
John Albert Holly (b. 1793)
Mrs. Christopher Henry Spingler (1753-1842)
ca. 1830
Niagara: The American Falls
ca. 1821
Washington Crossing the Delaware
ca. 1850
William Kurtz (1833-1904)
ca. 1875-1880
The Dunlap Family
1788
Luman Reed (1785-1836)
ca. 1849
William Sulzer (1863-1941)
1910
The Match Girl
1834
Unidentified religious portrait
Rhinelander Sugar House, New York City
c. 1876
Paperweight: fruit
1852-1880
Charles Willoughby Dayton III, (1846-1910)
1906
Charles Willoughby Dayton I
1822
Oil lamp
1841-1851
Steamboat "Sylvan Dell"
c. 1872-86
Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
Box camera
ca. 1900
Woodland Brook
ca. 1859
Mrs. John Dolbeare (1675-1744)
ca. 1730
Cocked hat (reproduction)
1880-1910
Simon Bolivar
The Young Student
Before 1862
Samuel Carne, M.D. (1725-1780)
ca. 1765
Portrait of John I. Earle (19th century)
Young '76
ca. 1855
Lorenzo Starr
ca. 1840
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Pilot Boat "Thomas S. Negus No.1"
n.d.
The Ice-Cart
1840-44
Wreath of Flowers Encircling the Holy Family
ca. 1620-40
Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1648-1698)
1666
DeWitt McClellan Lockman (1870-1957)
1879
Leonard Augustus Bleecker (1786-1841)
ca. 1828
Urn with cover
ca. 1800
Woodland Brook
1859
Figurine: serves as a container lid
1750-1850
Model of New York World's Fair, 1939
ca.1939
Indian Beauty
ca. 1863-1873
Mrs. John Livingston (1613-1693/4)
1687
Landscape (Man on a Raft)
19th century
John Brown (1800-1859)
ca. 1855-1860
Trees by a Brook, Salisbury, Connecticut
Mrs. Lazare Bayard (1574-?)
1636
Reverend Lazare Bayard (?-1643)
1636
David Provoost (b. 1642)
ca. 1700-1710
Catskill Mountains
ca. 1858
The Petition
1926
Study of Tree Top with Artist's Signatures
Nature Study: A Birch Tree
ca. 1860
Roman Landscape with the Coliseum and the Attic of the Arch of Titus, Italy
1868
View at Milton, N.Y.
ca. 1842
Vase
1840-1860
Antoine Pintard (1665-1732)
Mrs. Augustus Jay (1670-after 1747)
ca. 1710
Mrs. Charles Wardell
clock
1840-1860
Juliet Paradise (b. 1806)
ca. 1831
Haying Scene
1836
Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931)
1879
Charles Ira Bushnell (1826-1883)
1855-1860
Miniature fruit bowls (pair)
1875-1910
Flower paperweight
1845-1850
John Jay (1745-1829)
1889
iron
Herman Knickerbacker (1779-1855)
ca. 1825
The Bay of New York from Castle Clinton, NYC
ca. 1820
Mountain Stream in West Virginia
n.d.
Henrietta, Wife of Charles l, England, sister of Louis XlV
Mug
1815-1830
Cornelia Tappan Clinton (1774-1810)
ca. 1794
Thomas Cole's First Studio, Catskill, NY
1881
Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta), Havell plate no. 10
c. 1819
King Charles II,1630-1685
Jar
1815-1850
Landscape with River (Scene in Northern New York)
1849
Mrs. Barent Rynders, Jr. (1673-1762)
1720-1726
On the Esopus, Meadow Groves
before 1858
George Washington (1732-1799)
Early 19th century
Portia and Bassanio-from the "Merchant of Venice"
1865
Chain with two hoops
1680-1830
Black Mountains, Lake George, NY
ca. 1874
View on the Normanskill Near Albany
ca. 1850
Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
ca. 1865
Battle of Golden Hill, NY, Jan 19, 1770
ca. 1919-1920
Landscape
ca. 1855
Salt
ca. 1830-1845
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885)
1941
St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
ca. 1895
Catskill Creek, N.Y.
1845
Johanna Maria ("Jenny") Lind (1820-1887)
Mid-19th century
Spoon mold
1750-1800
Arent Schuyler (1662-1730)
ca. 1725
Mrs. Samuel Thomson (1789-1870)
ca. 1835-1840
Jones Beach, Long Island, N.Y.
1938
Mrs. John van Vorst
ca. 1899
Niagara Falls
ca. 1850-1859
John Keteltas (1739-1766)
1767
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)
ca. 1872
Solomon Kipp (fl. 1830-1860)
ca. 1850
The Man of Thought - The Man of Action
ca. 1856
Landscape: Road
n.d.
White Mountains
1858
Mrs. Edward Philip Livingston (1804-1877)
ca. 1830-1835
Gentleman of the de Groot Family
Late 16th or early 17th century
Butter mold
ca. 1825-1875
Powder Horn: Thomas Hodsdon (FW-74), with Vignettes of Two Historical Houses, a Fireplace and a Tomb
1891
Eagle with American Shield
19th century
Old Man Reading
n.d.
Rebecca
1857
Powder Horn: Thomas Watherbee (FW-77), Two Sides Depicted, with Vignettes of a Scene of Pilgrims Going to Church and a sketch of a Frontiersman
1891; 1894
Pere Hyacinthe (1828-1912)
1870
Sharp Shooters
1862
John Jay (1745-1829)
1792
Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)
1934
Henry Morgenthau (1856-1946)
1939
Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1960)
ca. 1945
Charles Willoughby Dayton III (1846-1910)
1897
Support bracket
Weighing The Baby
1941
Playing Doctor
1872
Powder Horn: John A. Flint (FW-122), with Carving Unfurled; verso: Four Studies of Colonial Implements
1888
A Frolic At The Old Homestead
1887
Mrs. Andrew Ellicott (ca. 1755-1827)
1809
Study of a Sea Creature
1814
Teaspoon
ca. 1850
Sealing A Letter
19th century
Philip Jacob Arcularius (ca.1750-1825)
ca. 1810
Cornelius Harsen (1783-1838)
n.d.
Queen Mary II, England
New York Harbor, N.Y.C
ca. 1880
Landscape
1837
Belgian Horses
19th century
Powder Horn: The M. L. G. (FW-171), with Vignettes of a Portrait of William Johnson and The Burk Tavern Sign
1890
View of the Yosemite Valley
1865
View of Napanoch in the Shawangunk Mountains, New York
1859
Edward Everett Bartlett Plaquette
1926
Proposal for the Gilbert Elevated Railroad, New York City
c. 1871
Log wagon
ca. 1901
Crossing the Ocean
1893
Game of Leap Frog
ca. 1890
Soldiers on Guard
ca. 1900
Waistcoat
ca. 1760
Paperweight
ca. 1870
Miniature Smelling Bottle: Spiral Bottom
1780-1820
Porringer
ca. 1780-1820
Porringer
1810-1850
Puzzle blocks
ca. 1870
Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain
1815
Montgomery Je...(Jerp?): Silhouette
1790-1820
Chiromagica
ca. 1870
Happy Harry Ring Toss
ca. 1920
Matson Smith, M.D. (c. 1754); verso: fragmentary tracing of female silhouette
1832
Peony Border floor lamp
ca. 1910-1913
The Game of Dr. Busby: America's Oldest Game
ca. 1900
Billy Bumps Visit to Boston: A Reading game
ca. 1888
Canteen w/docu: gift of John Wood Dunsmore 1941
1856
'Round the World Joe
ca. 1890
Game of Peter Coddles
1883-1895
Powder Horn: Edward Sherburne (R-14), with Carving Unfurled and a Landscape Vignette of the Great Elm Tree, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1891
Miniature armchair
1875-1900
The Bachelor's Dinner: Illustration
c. 1890
Shelf clock
1857-1880
Celery glass
1845-1865
Smelling bottle
1820-1890
Vase
1840-1870
Powder Horn: Francis M. Abbott (R-51), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette Scene of the Massacre at Cherry Valley, New York, 1778
1891-1892
Serving plate
1780-1820
Game of Where Do You Live?
ca. 1890

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