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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Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus borealis), Havell plate no. 174
Object Number:
1863.17.174
Date:
1832
Medium:
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, and gouache with touches of black ink and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
Dimensions:
Paper: 21 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (54.6 x 35.9 cm)
Mat: 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Inscriptions:
Birds numbered in graphite lower and upper respectively: "1"; "2"; at upper right corner: "74"
Gallery Label:
The background flora has been identified as Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) painted in Maine a few weeks later
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Society by public subscription from Mrs. John J. Audubon
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
