Museum Collections

Ashtray: Durango & Colorado

1884-1913

1948-1955

Pearlware cup plate

19th century

Dish: Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks

1815-1850

Sinking of the Ville du Havre, November 22, 1873

1815-1850

ca. 1874

Clevis

1760-1783

Dish: Smallest Locomotive in World...

ca. 1930-1955

Dish: Uintah Railway

ca. 1930-1955

Montague Flagg (1842-1915)

n.d.

Platter: Chillicothe

1815-1840

Platter: Louisville

St. Paul's Church: Boston

1821-1830

1725-1825

ca. 1850

1880-1910

1880-1910

1880-1910

1870-1890

Plate: Fleur de Lys Motif

1880-1910

Three Owls Plate Three Owls Plate

1880-1910

Pen

1973

Charge plate

ca. 1960

Plate: Indian Chief Motif

1880-1910

Plate: Be Industrious

1880-1920

Plate: Geometric Design

1880-1900

1835-1850

1810-1850

1880-1910

1880-1900

1890-1920

ca. 1830-1840

Smelling bottle w/lid: 8-sides, purple

1820-1890

1830-1845

1870-1900

ca. 1867

1870-1900

Flask w/lid: abstract design

1870-1920

1875-1900

1880-1910

1870-1900

1890-1925

1875-1900

1875-1900

1880-1910

1920-1940

1875-1900

1900-1930

1820-1840

Decanter with stopper

1850-1925

1760-1770

1820-1840

1850-1925

1920-1960

1925-1950

1945-1955

ca. 1830

Mrs. Francis Sedgwick Watson

1898

Footed salt

1810-1830

Badge

Wine glass

1830-1850

Serving dish: Cheat River

1925-1929

Serving dish: Nickel Plate Road

ca. 1930-1955

Cup

1820-1840

Steamboat "Southampton"

1880

Platter: Niagara Falls

ca. 1830-1864

Platter:...River Schuylkill

1813-1829

Platter

Platter: Capitol. Washington.

Platter

1815-1840

Platter: Lake George

1820-1846

Platter: Indian Creek

Dish: Indian Creek

1925-1929

Platter: Thomas Viaduct

1925-1929

Platter: A Noble Hunting Party

Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)

Early 19th century

Chapel Pond Brook, Keene Flats, Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.

ca. 1870

Plate: Abstract Plant Design

1880-1920

Platter: tray

1835-1845

1830-1845

Bowl: diamond pattern

1850-1900

Dish: Abstract Design

1835-1850

Plate: Gothic pattern on edge

1830-1845

Plate: abstract floral pattern

1830-1845

ca. 1896

1830-1880

1830-1880

1830-1880

1830-1880

1830-1860

1880-1900

ca. 1830

1880-1910

1900-1920

1875-1900

1880-1910

Match or toothpick holder: in shape of a boot on base

1875-1900

1880-1910

1880-1910

1880-1910

1880-1910

1890-1920

1880-1910

1880-1910

1875-1925

ca. 1790

1840-1880

1880-1910

1810-1830

1775-1825

1810-1830

1830-1850

1890-1920

1870-1900

1839-1845

ca. 1815

1850-1950

Parasol: black and w/monogram

ca. 1880

Platter: Massachsuetts Coat of Arms

1829-1855

Platter: State House, New Haven

1820-1846

Platter: New York from Heights near Brooklyn

Platter: Penitentiary Albany

Platter: from Fishkill Hudson River

1819-1836

Platter: Dr. Syntax...

Platter: North Carolina coat of arms

1829-1855

Platter: Harvard Collage

1840-1860

Platter: Harper's Ferry

ca. 1810-1840

Platter: Highlands, Hudson River

Platter: The Letter of Introduction

1815-1840

Platter: Delaware Coat of Arms

1829-1855

Bowl: china trade lotus motif

1755-1765

1830-1880

1829-1840

1810-1830

1840-1852

1830-1850

1830-1850

ca. 1830

1830-1860

1830-1850

1830-1850

Morning on the Cumberland Mountains

1854

1830-1840

ca. 1790

ca. 1790

ca. 1800-1850

Shallow bowl: china trade lotus motif

1755-1765

Lids

ca. 1800

Sugar bowl

ca. 1800

Serving platter

1810-1820

View of the Hudson River from Claremont, Riverside Park, New York City

1867

St. John's Chapel from the Park in 1829, New York City

City Hall, Atlanta, Georgia, 26 September 1864; verso: sketch of a fragmentary plan

September 26, 1864

Cartoon: “24 Weeks on the Potomac”: Illustration for “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper” (February 1, 1862); verso: study for the same subject

1862

paper cut-out of bow and quiver

George Andrew Hoffman (1813-1894)

Late 19th century

1840

Gracie Mansion, New York City

c. 1860

Late 18th century

John Christopher Kunze, D.D. (1744-1807)

Late 18th century-early 19th century

Early 19th century

Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Son)

Early 18th century

Charles James Fox (1749-1806)

1850-1870

Earl of Lauderdale

1806

ca. 1800

R. Orr - Paisley

1803

Roman Head

1840

Pieter Johan van Berckel (1725-1800)

1783-84

Genre Scene with Young Girl Knitting

Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819)

ca. 1813-1814

Law Sakes Alive! What Are You Doing, Baby

1855-1870

Floral Still Life

19th century

ca. 1872

Archibald Gracie, Jr. (1795-1865)

1850-1870

ca. 1810

Chief Black Hawk (1768-1838)

Mid-19th century

Fanny Eissler (1810-1884)

Mid-19th century

Marie Faglion

Mid-19th century

Table cloth/runner: Monogram-R

Painting and Sculpture

Early 19th century

1850-1900

Textile: black satin w/white selvage

1875-1925

Sack: red and gray

1880-1930

Surrender of New Amsterdam to the English, 1664

1938

Tea plate:...West Paint Hudson River

1820-1840

Platter: Landing of Genl. Lafayette

1824-1836

Brooch

1800-1875

Brooch / plaque cameo in box

19th century

Engagement Between the U.S. Sloop-of-War "Hornet" and Brig H.M.S. "Peacock"

after 1816

Platter

1886

Ladle

1896-1903

Miniature sugar tongs

ca. 1900

Sugar spoon

ca. 1850

The Narrows and Fort Lafayette, Ships Coming Into Port, New York Harbor

1868

Mustard pot with cover

1830-1845

Bouillion spoons

ca. 1911

Adjustable candlestick

1775-1800

Die

1800-1838

The Improved Game of Avilude or Game of Birds

1775-1800

1891

"You Are A Spirit, I Know: When Did You Die?"

1885

Katherine Rebecca Rogers (1868-1956)

1800-1850

Candlestick

early-mid 19th century

1874

Fragrancer base: white w/silver lustre

Whale oil lamp

1800-1850

Candlestick

1875-1900

Matchbox

Footed salt: diamond pattern (with glass ball - separate)

1810-1830

1900-1920

1900-1920

1870-1900

1870-1900

Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

1825

Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Son)

Early 18th century

The Game of Auction

1893

Unidentified woman

Late 18th century

Unidentified man

Late 18th century

View of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Showing the Elevated Railroad and the High Curve at West 110th Street, New York City

c. 1880

Mrs. James Roosevelt (1855-1941)

1940

George Ludwig Christian Scriba

ca. 1789

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

1809

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

1777

Button

1940

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

1934

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

1923

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

1838

Mrs. John Pintard (1765-1838)

1787

Robert Fulton (1765-1815)

ca. 1815

Henry Lewis

ca. 1825-30

Set of four memorial sample cards

1 from set of 9 Side chairs

1850-1870

1828-1835

The Great Fire of 1835: View of New York on the Morning of the Fire, Taken from Near a Mill on the Brooklyn Shore, New York

1835

Armchair

1670-1700

Side Chair, 1 of a pair

1850-1860

Armchair, 1 of a pair

1850-1860

Haverford College, Pennsylvania, 1876

1876 or later

Medal w/ribbon: Hudson /Fulton Celebration...

Coin: Vermont Auctori, Immune Columbia, 1785

Collec. of 6 coins: Massachusetts, Common Wealth

Coll. of 3 coins: Nova Caesarea, 1788 (New Jersey)

"Flowing Hair" dollar

1795

Coll. of 3 coins: US. half cent, 1807, 1809, 1828

Hunter College, New York City

Flag: Sons of Rhode Island

1850-1900

Pennant: Hudson-Fulton 1609-1909 celebration

1909

Hackensack Meadows, Sunset

1859

Cap: Mauyo's Committee of Women on National Defense Open Air

ca. 1917

Collection of campaigne material in case

Badge: delegate 1901 State's Fireman's Assoc.

ca. 1901

Study of a Cast of the a Full-Length Venus Wringing Out Her Hair

1848

Doll: in long white dress

1890-1910

View of Chatham Square, New York City: Manhattan Documentary

1963

Doll: Slavic woman in kerchief

1920-1960

Sweat scraper

1830-1875

Doll: Slavic girl figure

1920-1940

Doll

1920-1960

Girl's Head

1862

Fireman's belt: asst. foreman

1840-1880

1850-1900

Key

1800-1890

Door knocker with screw

1790-1810

Key to St. Luke's Church

1800-1820

Ulster County Winter Scene, New York

1880

The Village Blacksmith; verso: study of the same

Riverside Drive and 106th Street South, New York

c. 1971

In the Spider's Web: Andre and Arnold at the Smith House, Haverstraw, New York, September 22, 1780

Hugh Williamson, M.D. (1735-1819)

1816

Bacchante

ca. 1840

Shot glass/cordial: copper lustre, tan and blue bands

Group of a Boy and Dog, or Chi Vinci, Mangia

ca. 1844

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

1838

Two Putti and an Apple Tree

Mid-19th century

Uniforms of British and Canadian Troops Serving in Canada, War of 1812: Private, 103rd Regiment of Foot

1935

General Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

Late 19th century

St. Catherine

Martin Van Buren Indian Peace Medal

1839 or later

Henry Woodward Cooper and His Brother

1842

A Saddled Horse

Early 20th century

Alphonse Marie Louis de Part de Lamartine (1790-1869)

1854

American Mountain Scenery

1836

Side chair

1765-1790

Looking Glass from the "Ansonia"

1850-1900

Candlesticks (pair)

1850-1900

Summer in the Land of the Midnight Sun

ca. 1880

Grand Central Station, N.Y.C.

1927

Steamboat Clermont

1909

Mrs. George Andrew Hoffman (b. 1813)

1840

Sheep, Goat, and Chickens

1851

Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen

1851

Arranging Flowers

19th century

Venetian Balcony

19th century

Flemish Girl Spinning

19th century

The Listener

1867

The Tinker

19th century

Lost Illusions

1867

Badge: Volunteer Firemens Assoc. 2037

1890-1915

Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), Havell plate no. 196

1833

Squeak toy (bird in cage)

1875-1900

1875-1900

1860-1900

1820-1880

1866

1860-1880

Door plate from the Schuyler Mansion

ca. 1815

Clockwork toy

ca. 1880

Whistle

1810-1850

Sugar bowl with lid: Staffordshire; floral motif

1815-1840

Pitcher: Staffordshire, Dewitt Clinton Eulogy

Souvenir spoon

1900-1920

The Engagement between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake

Teapot with lid: " "Mount Vernon, The Seat of the Late Gen'l Washington"

1820-1840

Double-Inclined Plane with Boat Carried to an Upper Canal Level; verso: mechanical detail drawings

1797

Elizabeth Teackle: Silhouette

1807

Member of the Vanden Huysen Family (Wife)

ca. 1842

Tulips and Roses

1847

Soup plate

1815-1829

Early 18th century

Button

George William Curtis (1824-1892)

ca. 1880

Young buck

20th century

N-YHS Gold Medal for Achievement in History

ca. 1794

1925

N-YHS Gold Medal for Achievement in History

1925

Richard Upjohn (1802-1878)

ca. 1865

Study for "Departure of the Seventh Regiment for the War, April 19, 1861"

c. 1865-69

Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889)

1858 (patented)

ca. 1860-65

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

ca. 1900

Medal

1913

Hessian Prisoners Marching Past Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1776

Late 19th century or early 20th century

Excelsior

Last quarter 18th-century

20th century

1880

mid 19th century

1807

20th century

News from the Front

ca. 1863-64

Unidentified man

17th century

An April Day, New York

1881

Harbor Scene, New York City

1946

Sailing Ship (China Export)

Clipper Ship "Red Jacket"

Not dated

Bullet mold

1800-1850

Anton von Winterthur Graff (1736-1813)

ca. 1764-65

Renaissance revival sofa

1850-1870

Miniature plate

1900-1930

Mechanical box: boy and girl on seesaw

ca. 1850

Brooch

1800-1875

John James Audubon Commemorative Medal

1962

Shelf clock

1805-1815

View of the Narrows from Fort Hamilton Showing Fort Lafayett

Miniature candlestick

1900-1930

Miniature sewing basket

1920-1940

Miniature sewing basket

1920-1940

Doll's nightgown

1870-1920

Doll w/hood

ca. 1910

Doll: girl in brown and red dress on stand

1860-1880

Souvenir pillowcase

1940-1950

Doll: masked figure w/disjointed legs

1940-1960

Bullet mold

1800-1850

Flint lock musket, officer's presentation fitted for bayonet: inscribed?

1800-1850

Fan

1870-1900

1828-1830

Architectural ornament from the Laing store

1849

Sleighing in New York

Sleighing in Old New York

Inclined Boat Mechanism

1797

Eagle

ca. 1880-1882

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

1907

Jumping jack

1800-1820

Chalkware (love birds)

1850-1890

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

1930

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)

Mid-19th century

Candace T. Wheeler (ca. 1848-1876)

1863

Joshua Brookes (1773-1859)

1800-1850

Triumph of Justinian

1858

Ring Lardner (1885-1933)

Early 20th century

ca. 1845-1850

John Bolton (1726-1784)

1759

John A. Devereux (1859-1954)

1871

Mrs. George Osgood Holyoke (1839-1910)

1862

John Paul Jones (1747-1792)

1905

General Winfield Scott (1786-1866)

ca. 1862

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)

1920

Candlestand

1790-1830

Table made from wood of the "Shannon"

ca. 1860

1730-1760

1790-1810

ca. 1800

ca. 1800

1880-1920

1850-1900

ca. 1863

Dollhouse furn: pier table

1920-1940

Soldier on horse

1875-1915

Samuel Dyer Tillman (1815-1875)

1876

Study for a Country Villa

1828

Greek Revival Double Parlor

c. 1830

Residence of John Cox Stevens, New York City

1835

Tumbler

1875-1925

The Upper Lake, Central Park, NYC

1871

Chalkware (urn)

1850-1890

Mrs. Edward Wharton (1862-1937)

1890

Indian Stone ax head or adze

Late Woodland period

Kidney-shaped dishes (2)

1785-1795

Lace collar

1825-1875

Collection of domestic & wild animals

1870-1910

Coll. of 3 figures: walking man, mounted lady, Uncle Sam

1870-1910

Collection of 9 moveable field fortifications

1870-1910

Vase

1800-1850

Pocket perfume bottle

1780-1820

Washerwomen

Lantern: etched:...Martin...Capt. Z. Roosa?

ca. 1871

The Horse That Shied at the Ladies

c. 1921

shaker lid

1750-1850

Shoulder straps (pair)

1863

Toggles and chain

1900-1940

Whale tooth

1910-1940

Artur Bodansky (1877-1939)

1941

Joseph C. Heywood (1820-1900)

ca. 1872

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

1905

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

1928

George Westinghouse (1846-1914)

1925

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

1912

Powder Horn: John Bunker (1812-7), with Carving Unfurled, and a Vignette View of the Powder House, Nantucket, Massachusetts, with a Key to Encoded Carving

1891

The Upper Hall of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York City

1924-25

Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935)

1936

Harris Fahnestock (1869-1939)

Late 19th century

1937

Milliner's head

1820-1870

1 of set of 4 Side Chairs

1880-1920

Side Chair of Parlour Suite

1850-1855

Side chair

1740-1765

Daguerrotype triptych

1861-1865

Small cabinet

1740-1780

Steamboat "Reindeer"

1850

Child's armchair

1880-1890

1 of a Pair of Pier Tables

1860-1900

1 of a Pair of Pier Tables

1860-1900

Apparatus for slicing wicker

1825-1900

Jane Smith (1817-1918)

1835

Flask

ca. 1862

Crock

1850-1900

Flag: 42 Stars Americnan Flag

1889-1890

Entrance Gate to the White House Garden, Washington, D.C.

1818

Jar with handle

1800-1900

Milk can and lid

1800-1880

The Wrestlers

1881

Mrs. Archibald Robertson (1776-1865)

1794

Colonel Nicholas Fish (1758-1833)

1800-1850

ca. 1825-30

Animal bone

ca. 1734

Sedan chair

1870-1900

Pull toy (soldier on horseback)

1850-1900

Woodcarving (deer)

1850-1900

Toy chest of drawers

1825-1875

Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

ca. 1800

Egg beater

ca. 1920-1950

Silver bag

1900-1924

Buttons

1880-1892

Checkers Up At The Farm

December 28, 1875

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

December 6, 1907

Benjamin West (1738-1820)

1811

Albert Eugene Gallatin (1881-1952)

ca. 1900

1919

Union Refugees

1863

Lexington Meeting House and Buckman's Tavern, Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1775

Historical obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle

1881

Baseball "Striker" and Pitcher

1868

Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)

Mid-19th century

1831

Napoleon Bonaparte, (1796-1821), Apollo Belvedere

Mid-19th century

The Fisher Girl

1860

Mrs. John Archibold (Lucy)

1949

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

1943