Beldad y la Bestia
Classification:
Date:
1864
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Book (closed): 25.4 x 15.2 cm (10 x 6 in.)
Description:
Issued in printed and illustrated wrappers: title and imprint on front cover within ornamental border, publisher’s advertisement on back.
Illustrations: 8 wood-engravings signed W. Momberger (William Momberger); hand colored. First issued in 1856 by John McLoughlin.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
LIB.YC1864.Beau
Date Begin:
1864
Date End:
1864
eMuseum Object ID:
65888
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A short sketch of the first voyage across the Atlantic ocean, and landing of Christopher Columbus on the Americn shore, in 1492. / taken from Irving’s abridgement of his life.
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Date:
1833
Dimensions:
Book: 10.8 x 17.8 cm (4 1/4 x 7 in.)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
LIB.YC1833.Irv Colum
Date Begin:
1833
Date End:
1833
eMuseum Object ID:
65887
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Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
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Classification:
Is owned by NYHS:
Yes
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Date:
1807
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (32.1 x 21.9 cm)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.NewYorkCity.Misc.1
Date Begin:
1807
Date End:
1807
eMuseum Object ID:
65886
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Pocket Map of the Panama Canal
Classification:
Dimensions:
Paper (map): 12 1/4 x 36 7/8 in. (31.1 x 93.7 cm)
Paper (cover): 4 x 7 1/2 in. (10.2 x 19.1 cm)
Description:
Fold out pocket color map of the Panama Canal. N.D. but written as if before the opening of the canal.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Olcott
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
65881
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Miranda to Pres. Adam, March 24, 1798
Classification:
Date:
1798
Medium:
Paper
Dimensions:
Paper: 12 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (31.4 x 20 cm)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.RufusKing.2
Gallery Label:
Letter to President Adams saying that the Spanish-American colonists (Miranda's term) had unanimously resolved to proclaim their independence and to place their liberty on a firm basis, and so they wrote to the American government, which they invited to join them in the enterprise of Revolution.
Date Begin:
1798
Date End:
1798
eMuseum Object ID:
65880
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The American landscape. No 1 : Engraved from original and accurate drawings; executed from nature expressly for this work, and from well authenticated pictures; with historical and topographical illustrations
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Date:
1830
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 1/16 in. (26 x 20.5 cm)
Description:
New-York: : Published by Elam Bliss. Engravings by Asher B. Durand and J. Smillie from paintings by W.J. Bennett, A.B. Durand, Robert W. Weir, and T. Cole. 16 pages with 6 engraved plates.
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
LIB.Y-q.1830
Date Begin:
1830
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
65870
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Rule of Three, with London Merchant
Classification:
Date:
1816
Medium:
Manuscript
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (32.7 x 19.4 cm)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.BV.AfricanFreeSchool.Vol4.
Gallery Label:
To know the "rule of three" in the nineteenth century implied a certain basic competency in mathematics. As the presence of a London merchant in this word problem might suggest, this problem originally appeared in a British arithmetic text book, and was later copied verbatim in a great many American editions.
Student: Henry Hill
Date Begin:
1816
Date End:
1816
eMuseum Object ID:
65832
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Pastoral Scene by Andrew R. Smith
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Yes
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Date:
1822
Medium:
Manuscript
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (32.7 x 19.4 cm)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.BV.AfricanFreeSchool.Vol4.
Gallery Label:
A pastoral scene drawn by valedictorian Andrew R. Smith. Little is known of the life of this talented student following his years at the New York African Free School.
Student: Andrew R. Smith
Date Begin:
1822
Date End:
1822
eMuseum Object ID:
65831
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New School Building
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1816-1826
Medium:
Manuscript
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (32.7 x 19.4 cm)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
MSS.BV.AfricanFreeSchool.Vol4.
Gallery Label:
This image is likely a rendering of the newly erected school building, built with fundraising led by treasurer John Murray after their earlier schoolhouse had burned down in 1814.
Student: John Burns
Date Begin:
1816
Date End:
1826
eMuseum Object ID:
65830
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A Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas...
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Date:
1787
Dimensions:
Book (8 pages; 39 specimens): 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line:
New-York Historical Society Library
Object Number:
LIB.Y1787
Date Begin:
1787
Date End:
1787
eMuseum Object ID:
65829
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