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Fraktur: Birth and Baptism certificate of Joseph Flor
Date:
1811
Object Number:
PR.022.13
Medium:
Hand-colored print

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1912
Coin
1908
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1893
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Captain Thomas Truxtun Naval Medal
ca. 1802
Captain Thomas Truxtun Naval Medal
ca. 1880
John Barry Commemorative Medal
1803
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1816
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ca. 1812-1820
Captain Jacob Jones Naval Medal
1821-1885
Captain Stephen Decatur, Jr. Naval Medal
1820-1881
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Captain William Bainbridge Naval Medal
1817
Captain James Lawrence Naval Medal
1868-1885
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1813
Lieutenant William Burrows Naval Medal
1817-1880
Lieutenant Edward R. McCall Naval Medal
1820-1885
Master Commandant Oliver H. Perry
1869-1885
Master Commandant Oliver H. Perry Naval Medal
ca. 1870
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1820-1866
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ca. 1860
Captain Lewis Warrington Naval Medal
1819-1885
Captain Johnston Blakeley Naval Medal
1820
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Lieutenant Stephen Cassin Naval Medal
After 1878
Captain Charles Stewart Naval Medal
1819-1885
Captain James Biddle Naval Medal
1820-1885
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after 1850
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after 1850
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after 1857
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1850-1900
Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer Life Saving Medal
1861
Laying of the first Trans-Atlantic Telegraphic Cable medal
1858
Cyrus Field Medallion
ca. 1858
Cyrus Field Medal
1858
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ca. 1858
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1892
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1892
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1892
Jar
1805-1833
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1893
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ca. 1858
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after 1861
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after 1861
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ca. 1862
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ca. 1864
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ca. 1864
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1825 - 1900
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ca. 1864
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1863
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1863
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1860-1870
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Metis shipwreck
1875
John Horn medal
1875
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1889
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1889
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1893
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1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca.1898
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1898
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1914
Commodore Dewey Manila Bay Medal
1898
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ca. 1898
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1898
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1898
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ca. 1898
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ca.1898
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ca. 1898
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ca.1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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1900
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ca.1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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1899
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1899
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
The Defendant and His Counsel
1901
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ca. 1900
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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1898
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1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1898
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ca. 1901
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ca. 1898
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1899
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1900
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1900
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1903
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1907
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ca. 1909
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1908
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1908
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ca. 1900
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1907
New York City souvenir hot pad
ca. 1939
New York City souvenir hot pad
ca. 1939
New York World's Fair souvenir hot pad
ca. 1939
New York World's Fair souvenir hot pad
ca. 1939
New York City souvenir hot pad
ca. 1939
Medal
1899
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1899
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1899
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1899
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ca. 1898
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1899
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1899
1964-1965 World's Fair Souvenir Glass
1964-1965
Medal
1907
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1907
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ca. 1907
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ca. 1907
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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ca. 1909
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1909
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ca. 1909
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1909
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Official Commemorative Medal
1909
The Circle of Friends of the Medallion 1st Issue
1909
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commemorative Medal
1909
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1909
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1898
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1909
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Saint Nicholas Society 300th Anniversary Dinner Plaquette
1909
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1909
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1902
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1910
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1909
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1911
U.S. Marine Corps Nicaraguan campaign medal
1913
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1912
Souvenir medal
1912
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1913
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ca. 1912
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1913
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1909
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1909
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1913
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1889
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1869
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1916
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1893
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ca. 1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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ca. 1913
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1919
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1917
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ca. 1917
State Department Lifesaving Medal
1862
Medal
1866
Joseph Francis Lifesaving Medallion
1890
Medal
1908
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1916
Captain Charles Stewart Naval medal
1819
Captain Lewis Warrington Naval medal
1819
Master Commandant Jesse D. Elliott Naval Medal
1818
Lieutenant Edward R. McCall Naval Medal
ca. 1817
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1889
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1876
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1889
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1914
State Department Lifesaving Medal
ca. 1861
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ca. 1850
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1909
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1898
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1913
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Button
1866-1900
Wood fragments from Confederate privateer Rattlesnake (ex-Nashville)
ca. 1863
Wood fragments from U.S. Frigate Alliance
1778
Gun used on U.S.S. Congress
1799-1834
Wood fragment from Merrimac
ca. 1862
Metal fragment from U.S.S. Monitor
ca. 1862
Metal fragment from U.S.S. Monitor
ca. 1862
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1893
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1915
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1917
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1917
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1917
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ca. 1916
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ca. 1909
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1902
Image of Amundsen's ship Gjoa framed in wood from ship's bookcase
1907-1947
Framed image of Nelson's death with wood fragment from flagship Victory
1800-1900
Plaster medal casts
1851-1900
Plaster medal casts
1875-1902
Box and note describing Sloat donation
Envelope
Wood fragment from U.S.S. Congress
Wood fragment from ship Cumberland
Book-shaped wooden piece of Merrimac
1863
Wood fragment from battleship Niagara
ca. 1812
Metal plate from ship Thetis
1850-1918
Oak fragment from H.M. Somerset
1750-1778
Fragment of Jamaica-Santiago cable, with felt container
1898
Flag fragments
ca. 1861
Flowers and leaves from Lincoln's casket
1865
Metal printing plates (2)
ca. 1839
Plan of the Central Park, New York : Entry No. 4 in the competition
March 20, 1858
Central Park Competition Entry No. 29
March, 1858
Militia jacket
ca. 1861
An Actress, probably Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), in Costume
ca. 1880-1900
An Actress, probably Isabella Cubas (1831-1864), in Costume
mid nineteeth-century
An Actress in Costume
mid nineteenth-century
Anna Russell (1911-2006), Opera Singer and Comedienne
ca. 1930-1950
Herbert Henry Lehman (1878-1963)
1936
Bishop William T. Manning (1866-1949)
1936
Robert Moses (1888-1981)
n.d.
William O'Dwyer (1890-1964)
1948
Dr. William J. Schieffelin (1891-1985)
1931
Samuel Seabury (1729-1796)
1931
Sophie and Oscar Tschirky (1866-1943)
1937
Robert F. Wagner (1877-1953)
1933
James Jay Walker (1881-1946)
1945
Grover Whalen (1886-1962)
n.d.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
1932
Helen Huntington Hull (1893-1976)
1942
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (1882-1947)
n.d.
Steamboat Highlander
n.d.
Steamboat Isaac Newton
n.d.
Steamboat Oswego
n.d.
Steamboat Rochester
n.d.
Steamboat Utica
n.d.
View of the Pompton River, Beaver Town, Morris County, New Jersey
1866
2008.44.
The Bronx Along the Hudson
1880
A Hillside Path in Union Hill, New Jersey
1865
On the Passaic River, Paterson, New Jersey
1860
Road Scene, Union Hill, New Jersey
1865
The Woods in Autumn, New York
1884-1885
On the Passaic River, Little Falls, New Jersey
1866
Yosemite
1868
Architectural ornament
ca. 1880
G.B. McClellan pin
Parker-Davis button
16/1
1896
Pin
American flag pendant
Re-Elect Roosevelt
American flag
Long May It Wave American Flag pin-back button
American flag
Navy badge
Health Care is a Right Not a Privilege button
Badge
Purple Heart Badges
Pin-back button
Silver star badge
Pin-back button
American flag pin
Campaign button
Medalet
1832
"A NEW BEGINNING IN '88/DUKAKIS-BENTSEN"
Medal
Fields Borough President button
"PART OF/THE WAY WITH/LBJ"
"EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE/WANTS WILLKIE"
shoe pin
Landon/Knox political button
"ROOSEVELT/FOR/EX/PRESIDENT"
The Birds of America
1840-1844
Ornithological Biography, or, an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America; Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery a
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
1880
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Medal with ribbon
1916
Marechal Foch Medal
1918
Medal with ribbon
ca. 1918
Medal with ribbon
ca. 1918
Medal
ca. 1911
Medal
ca. 1922
Medal
1916
Medal
ca. 1920
Medal
ca. 1916
Medal
ca. 19th century
Pin-back button
2008
Democratic National Convention pin 2008
2008
Barack Obama button
2008
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2008
Pin-back campaign button
2008
Rudy Giuliani button
2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
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2008
"UAW SUPPORTS BARACK OBAMA JOE BIDEN OBAMA '08, WWW.BARACKOBAMA.COM"
2008
Token
ca.1965
Identification Token
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Avis Rent a Car button
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button
Two Garden pins and box
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
October 1660- June 1663
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
Ledger, 1678-1684
1678-1684
Poems, Henricus Selyns
1659-1686
Totius Neobelgii Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula
After 1674
Novi Belgii Novaque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae Tabula
After 1655
Purchas his pilgrimes: In five books
1625
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant
1656
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
1724-1726
Indiæ Orientalis. II. pars : in qva Iohan.
1599
Beschryving des keizerryks van Taising of Sina . . .
1670
Het gezandtschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Companie...
1693
A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands..
1670
N Amsterdam, ou N Iork in Ameriq
ca. 1700
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Insignia
ca. 1860s
Collars/cuffs box
Late 19th century
Bonnet
Early 19th century
Buttons
Early 20th century
Scarf
2008
Pin-back button
Tab button
Pin-back button
1965
Pin-back button
Tab Button
ca. 1980
Pin-back button
1960
Pin-back button
1988
Pin-back button
1972
Pin-back button
Pin-back button
Pin-back button
Button
Rain bonnet
Napkin
1957
Speech of His Excellency George Washington, Esq; president of the United States of America, delivered to the Honorable the Congress
The Committees of both Houses of Congress, appointed to take order for conducting the ceremonial of the formal reception, & c. of the President of the United States
1789
Barack Obama
2008
Barack Obama
2008
Hillary Clinton
2008
John McCain
2008
Pin-back button
ca. 1970
Pin-back button
ca. 1962
Pin-back button
ca. 1990
Pin-back button
ca. 1970
Pin-back button
ca. 1992
Pin-back button
ca. 1993
Pin-back button
1997
Pin-back button
ca. 1970
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ca. 2000
Pin-back button
1975

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