Collection Highlights
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
Date:
1932
Object Number:
LIB.NS11.M14.1.20
Medium:
black and color ink on paper, backed with cloth
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Icabod Skinner: Silhouette
Object Number:
Z.2417
Date:
1793
Medium:
Gray wash and graphite on beige paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. ( 32.1 x 18.4 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on front: "Mr Icabod Skinner New Haven / 1793 Itinerant Priest"
Inscriptions:
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Mr Icabod Skinner New Haven / 1793 Itinerant Priest"
Description:
Silhouette: Life-size (?) right-facing profile of male subject; ink wash within outline in graphite on paper with handwritten description below.
Gallery Label:
This profile portrait is one of about two dozen found among the papers of Benjamin Tappan, great-grandfather of the donor.
Credit Line:
Gift of John K. Wright, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
