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Fire engine condenser case
1830-1840
1937.1631
Wood, paint, gilding
Artist/Maker: Thomas Grenell

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Creamer: copper lustre blue band w/Rose Motif
1948.241
Henry W. Peck
1974.35
Claude Gallatin
1952.362
James H. Ledlie
1951.526
Jonathan Warren Kellogg (1780-1853)
1979.83
Abel I. Smith (1877-1949)
1977.75
Declaration of Independence
1947.23
East Side Street
1974.56
The Connoiseur
1948.156
John Bainbridge and daughter
1882.54
Footed dish
1951.204
Female Child with Horse
1964.17
Study of Sleeping Girl
1955.300
Pitcher: copper lustre ochre bands
INV.13453
John Willet
1976.15
Medal: eagle
INV.2498
Coin: half dollar, California's Diamond Jubilee, 1925
1925.152a
Coin: half dollar, Daniel Boone bicentennial, 1934
1934.69a
Napoleon
X.705
Button stud: Medical Society, State of New York
1943.268
Coin: half dollar, Sesquicentenneal, 1776-1926
1926.86
Baron Jean Gallatin
1952.368
Madeleine de Gallatin
1952.369
Medal w/ribbon in box:Industry of all Nations 1853
INV.4800
Pin: July 1936.10189 Bathing Belmar Beach
INV.4698C
Pin: Belmar Bathing, 1933.14384
INV.4698G
Coin in envelope: Cistophorus-silver coin of Augustus
INV.10782
2 tokens: N.Y.C. Transit Authority Tokens
INV.4257
Coin: USA, 1867 lll
1609
Metal on Card w/ribbon: Souvenir of Tunnel,March 24,1900
INV.3512
David Livingston
1946.137
Pin: Deputy Sheriff, 1900-1901
INV.5022
Badge
INV.5027
INV.714
INV.714
Badge
INV.4945
ceremonial ribbon: S.S. Levy
INV. 12258
Badge
INV.3090
Badge
INV.4449
Badge
1945.5503
Medal
INV.5115
Badge
INV.5121
Button
INV.2739
Medallion: Intl. livestock expo
1949.137
Buttons: Rockefeller
INV.2287
Mrs. James Benedict
1981.2
Medallion
1942.293
Plate
INV.652
Buttons
INV.2289
Button
INV.2377
Button
INV.2381
Buttons
INV.2465
Pin w/ Ribbon: Society Army of the Potomic, May 25-26, 1900
INV.2435
Ribbon: In Memorium
INV.2440
Badge w/medal
1941.409
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
1925.80
Flag patch
INV.2650
Button
INV.2494
Pin: Winchester
INV.2512
Button
INV.2536
2 buttons
INV.2605
Button
INV.2631
Bar pin
INV.2635
Pitcher: Dewey
1951.380
Market Boats Entering Harbor
1921.9
Ribbon: Lafayette
INV.2792
Button
INV.1978F
Badge
INV.1982B
Badge
INV.2017
St. Peter Denying Christ
1888.3
Badge
INV.3076
Button
INV.4977
Button
INV.4990
Badge
INV.5006
Pin: Eagle w/Anchor
INV.1916
Campaign button: Roosevelt for Ex President
1940.548
Campaign button: No Third Term
1940.764
Campaign button: Willkie and McNasy
1940.816
Campaign button: Willkie and McNasy
1940.821
Campaign button: Every
1940.517
Campaign button: Roosevelt No More...
1940.661
Study of a Raccoon
1949.306c
Henry Clay
1875.1
Campaign button: No Crown For Franklin
1940.541
Unidentified woman
1867.409
Campaign button: Nov. 5 Franklin Gets His...
1940.807
Button
1944.340
Pin: Corporation Seal ...Yonkers
INV.3410
Badge
INV.3420
Untitled: Night Scene
1974.57
Frigate
1932.55
Button: Democrats and Republicans for Willkie
1940.643
Button: Willkie and McNary
1940.820
Button: Willkie and McNary
1940.826
Memories: Indian and Pony
1969.57
Abel I. Smith (1843-1916)
1977.74
Shell Fragment in Envelope
1836.588
Campaign Button: Roosevelt Hide at Hyde
1940.713
Bottle
1927.87
Badge
INV.3664
Badge
INV.3671
Badge
1941.254
Paperweight with Butterfly
1933.192
Curling iron
1954.191
Cornelis van der Geest
1858.68
Flora
1858.61
Boors Gambling
1858.50
Badge
1941.259
Button: Willkie
1940.638
Passaic Falls, Totowa, New Jersey
X.225
Thomas Ruggles Gold (1764-1827)
1979.62
Moses Gambault
1975.11
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
1936.988
Button: We The People Need Willkie
1940.642
Button: Willkie for President
1940.621
Button: No Third Term
1940.757
Mrs. John Trumbull
1982.11
Luncheon in the Garden
S-116
Collection of two campaign buttons: Thanksgiving Day Nov.5
1940.552
Campaign buttons collection: Wilkie Second Million
INV.6391
Family Group
1937.460
Waterfall in Berkshire County
X.33
Lewis Morris II
1979.85
Cornwallis' Surrender to Washington at Yorktown, October 19, 1781
1936.989
Campaign button: Willkie For President
1940.640
Landscape with House
1911.98
Campaign button: Willkie Worker
1940.682
Campaign button: We Want Wilkie
1940.516
Button
INV.4105
Badge w/pin & ribbon
INV.4112
Campaign button: Willkie For Prosperity
1940.614
Campaign button: Wilkie
INV.6651
Flat Iron Building, NY
1962.6
Anonymous Gentleman
1967.49
Campaign button w/ribbon:Sovenir of Democratic Convent. 1936
INV.6653
Mrs. Peter van Brugh Livingston
1960.104
Badge
INV.4420
Button
INV.1949
Button
INV.2056
Marine View
1910.12
Steamship
1925.110
Peck children
1974.34
King Willilam III (1650-1702)
1952.41
Probably Napoleon Bonaparte
1977.24
Catherine or Hitchcock Stuart
1977.23
Elizabeth Cotterill
1974.48
John Albert Holly (b. 1793)
1947.506
Unidentified religious portrait
1977.21
Clipper Ship
X.232
Mrs. James H. Ledlie
1951.527
Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
1950.376
Badge
1941.261
Simon Bolivar
1946.134
Portrait of John I. Earle (19th century)
1932.54
Childs coat and vest
1938.308
Study of a Drinking Cow: verso: sketch of two cows
1918.221
Lake Shore and Wooded Island
1918.282
Button
1997.5.51
Button
1997.5.52
Marquis de Lafayette (?)
1938.3
Mrs. Peter A. Lorillard
1986.7
Mrs. Peter A. Lorillard
1986.8
Trees by a Brook, Salisbury, Connecticut
1918.254
Study of Four Trees
1918.299
Little Boys Reaping
1909.24
Trees by a Rocky Brook, Catskill, New York
1918.229
Study of Tree Top with Artist's Signatures
1918.306
Antoine Pintard (1665-1732)
1975.9
Mrs. Charles Wardell
1975.32
iron
471
Hudson River Landscape - Cold Spring Looking Towards Storm King Mt?
X.268
Landscape
X.325
Henrietta, Wife of Charles l, England, sister of Louis XlV
1950.188
Fighting Cock
X.236
King Charles II,1630-1685
1941.240
"The Van", Cardiff, Wales
1909.42
Token: Jenny Lind
1945.194a
INV.15
INV.15
INV.1350
INV.1350
Helen Livingston De Peyster
1982.10
Peter A. Lorrilard
1986.9
Plate: General Jackson
1961.158
Peletiah Perit (1785-1864)
1981.12
Home of Ole Bull, Norway
1944.20
Ribbon: Grover Cleveland for President 1892
1940.373
Washington Hastening to the Front, Battle of Harlem, New York
1936.844
INV.102
INV.102
INV.751
INV.751
Keppler Family Coat-of-Arms
1970.78
Support bracket
INV.15036
Medal
INV.6
INV.1300
INV.1300
Medallion
INV.9
Medallion
INV.10
INV.707
INV.707
Dead Game
X.14
Anonymous Gentleman
1950.378
Queen Mary II, England
1952.42
Waistcoat
1948.159
The First American Cavalryman, 1776
1936.952
Hessians Skirmishing; Sketch of Hessian and Continental Soldiers
1936.955
Battle of Bunker Hill, June, 1775
1936.975
Copy belt buckle: Royal Newfoundland Regiment
INV.5968
Badge: 213 ACTA...
INV.5990
Badge: Queens Rangers...
INV.5988
Washington's Inauguration, New York City, April 30, 1789
1936.1015
Stopped at the Outpost
1955.295
Belt buckle: 23
INV.5887
Badge: Shropshire Regiment
INV.5984
Badge: The Queens
INV.5982
Badge: Cornwall
INV.5983
Badge: York and Lancaster
INV.5989
Badge: Queens Rangers...
INV.5987
Badge: 45
INV.5991
Badge: 45
INV.5993
Badge: G.R. 100
INV.5994
Badge: 45
INV.5992
Badge: Lincolnshire Regiment Egypt
INV.5954
Woodcliff (later called "Libbey Castle")
1952.86
Victorious Marines Plant Old Glory on Iwo Jima
X.706
Stein
INV.6511
Paperweight: sulphide
1965.483
Badge: KL81
INV.5960
Tablet:...Kings
INV.5895
Badge: 53 Honi Soit...
INV.6051
Belt buckle: w/cannon-crown image
INV.5997
Badge: The Welsh Regiment...
INV.5996
Badge: GR 49
INV.5995
Interior of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, New York City
X.422
Belt buckle: R.E.
INV.5893
Belt buckle: Royal Americans LX
INV.5892
Belt buckle: xx
INV.5888
Belt buckle: New Brunswick Regiment 104
INV.5890
Action between the USS "Chesapeske" and H.M.S. "Shannon".
1963.83
Badge:...Dieu et Mon Droit
INV.5958
Badge: The Kings Own
INV.5981
Unidentified man
1867.422
Badge: Cheshire
INV.5959
Belt buckle: 1785
INV.5998
Badge: Tria Suncta Im Uno
INV.5953
Bowl
INV.574
Mug
INV.575
Parts of shoe buckles
INV.6179
Oil lamp
INV.552
Cup
1955.26lh
Sugar bowl lid
1961.238a
Sugar bowl base
1961.238b
Coll. of 3 coins: Nova Caesarea, 1787 (New Jersey)
INV.13889
Snuff box in box
1942.604
Badge: S. Lancashire...Vols
INV.5985
Badge: West Yorkshire
INV.5979
Edwin A. McAlpin (1848-1917)
1978.48
Badge
INV.3391D
Badge
INV.4392
Badge
INV.4442
Medal
INV.4
Badge
INV.5516
Badge
INV.5109
Badge
INV.4920I
Button: Opposed to Woman Suffrage
INV.2478
Badge
INV.5091
Badge
INV.5122
Badge
INV.3322
Badge
INV.3281
Pin: Member Liberty Loan Committee
INV.4864E
Clips
INV.7148
Ribbon: ...Cin. Henry Clay 1844...
INV.6713
Pin fragment (?): Harrison
INV.6922
Pin: w/photo of McKinley
INV.7023
Arm band
INV.11722
Badge: Jellalabad
INV.5978
Medal Honoring Washington, Kosciusko and Lafayette
1947.313
Badge
INV.4717
Badge
INV.4426
Pin: Pro Patria Armanus
INV.4973
Pitcher: copper lustre w/ blue border and peaceable kingdom
INV.12714
Pitcher: silver lustre w/ bas relief hunting scene
INV.12721
Cup: yellow/silver lustre w/ cherry design
INV.12724
Tree Study
1918.308
Cluster of Trees on an Incline
1918.315
Trees on a Hillside
1918.338
1952.18b
1952.18b
Button
1997.5.9
condiment shaker
1922.35
Button
1997.6.86
Study of a Tree
1918.295
Study of a Fir Tree
1918.297
Badge:...Princess of Wales Own...
INV.5957
Badge: Royal Army Medical Corp
INV.5956
Belt buckle: G.C.
INV.5885
Buckle
INV.5884
Badge
INV.5138a
Mountain Valley Pass
1918.277
Coin: half dollar, Oregon Trail Memorial 1926
1927.125
Coin: 1619
X.208
Token: Hallock & Bates, Wholesale Dry Goods
INV.13792
Token: Not Repeal, July 4, 1855, N.Y.
INV.13796
Coll.of 3 coins: Immunis Columbia, 1787
INV.13870
Campaign button: Don't Be a Jackass Follow the Eagle
1940.564
Pool cue rack
IL2002.8.1
Crock
1928.658
Badge: Egypt North Gloucestershire 28
INV.5952
Tablet: Regiment
INV.5898
Christening dress
INV.775
Folded scarf
INV.998
INV.103
INV.103
Pin-back button
2001.261
Pitcher: Robert Fulton/Apotheosis of Washington...
INV.13059
Saucer from collection of railroad china and dining car plates
1955.230b
Tea bowl
1941.321a
drawing of roses
1948.1146
Contemplative Pilgrim
X.704j
Jar
INV.1055
Pitcher: branch pattern
1951.158
Pitcher: bird pattern
1951.153
Pitcher: floral and fish scale pattern
1951.164
Pitcher: hunting scene
1951.111
Coffeepot: floral pattern/banded
1951.196ab
Pitcher: berries on the vine pattern
1951.175
Teapot: berry/leaf pattern
1951.193ab
Pitcher: grape vine pattern
1951.118
Pitcher: vine/floral pattern
1951.163
Pitcher: dandelion
1951.161
Pitcher: wheat/grape leaves
1951.157
Profile Portrait of a Woman
1924.12
Pitcher: six sided
1951.151
Pitcher: diamond pattern
1951.96
Pitcher: berry/floral pattern
1951.103
Pitcher: landscape image
1951.143
Pitcher: oriential scene
1951.146
Pitcher: architectual image
1951.141
Pitcher: landscape
1951.99b
Pitcher: landscape
1951.99a
Round platter
1964.56
Pitcher: vine/floral pattern
1951.166
Pitcher: blue w/white bars
1951.127
Plate: Jeshuat Israel Tourogogue Synagogue
1954.219f
Plate: Shearith Israel Synagogue 3 West 19th Street
1954.219e
Trivet/Hot Plate: Adams County Penn. about 1830
INV.13030
Pitcher: bird pattern
1951.155
Pitcher: bird with monogram (unclear)
1972.16
Vase:bottle shapped w/Floral Vine Applique
1942.643[dup]
Plate: Shearith Israel Synagogue, 56 Crosby Street
1954.219b
Plate: Shearith Israel Synagogue...
1954.219g
Button
2003.97.19
Pitcher: Hunting Scene
1951.115[dup]
Button
2003.97.24
Button
2003.97.39
Pin: Verizon Wireless
2003.97.41
Plate: calender plate for 1909
1969.22
Plate: Seal of Congregation Israel
1954.219a
Collander: 1809
INV.13026
Bowl w/lip
INV.13027
Shot glass/cordial: copper lustre, tan and blue bands
INV.13507
Platter: Louisville
1961.294
Button
2003.70.22
Badge
INV.4239
Platter
1942.266d
Platter: Capitol. Washington.
1961.2399
Platter: Indian Creek
1927.47
Platter: A Noble Hunting Party
1961.376
Platter: New York from Heights near Brooklyn
1961.245
Platter: Penitentiary Albany
1961.296
Platter: Dr. Syntax...
1961.375
Platter: Highlands, Hudson River
1961.264
Teapot and lid
1961.324ab
Teapot with lid
1948.276ab
Sugar bowl with lid
1948.275ab
Sugar bowl
1948.276c
Teacup
INV.12916
Teapot with lid: Chrstmas Eve
1961.396ab
Pitcher: pastoral scene
1945.236c
Mug: pastoral scene
1945.240
Cup: emblem
INV.13044
Pagent of Cape Cod
1940.235
Horse Cab opposite the Plaza Hotel
Z.3384
Plate
Z.54
Pitcher: copper lustre Sienna band
1948.222
Jar w/ lid: Oriential motif
13068ab
Jar w/ lid: Oriential motif
13069ab
Jar: floral motif
13071a
Jar lid: floral motif
13071b
Round platter
1964.55
Vase:hexagonal; floral design
1924.467
Pitcher: cottage scene
1951.106
Pitcher: diamond pattern
1951.97
Pitcher
INV.12575
Pitcher: grape vine motif
1951.121
Pitcher: cottage scene
1951.142
Saucer
1940.41a
Teacup
1940.41b
Creamer: copper lustre tan and blue bands
1948.182
Creamer: copper lustre green bands
1948.260
Creamer: copper lustre blue band
1948.183
Creamer: copper lustre blue band
1948.187
Creamer: copper lustre
1948.261
Creamer: copper lustre white band w/floral motif
1948.197
Creamer: copper lustre
INV.13461
Creamer: copper lustre Floral relief band
1948.238
Creamer: copper lustre cream bands
1948.214
Creamer: copper lustre light blue bands w/floral motif
1948.243
Creamer: copper lustre navy band
1948.190
Creamer: copper lustre blue band
1948.194
Creamer: copper lustre cream w/Leaf Motif
1948.231
Creamer: copper lustre
INV.13474
Creamer: copper lustre relief figure
INV.13475
Creamer/ pitcher: copper lustre blue band
INV.13476
Pitcher: copper lustre pink bands
1948.200
Creamer: copper lustre glazed sand-white
1948.204
Creamer: copper lustre gray green band
1948.257
Creamer: copper lustre gray sand pink
1948.205
Creamer: copper lustre gray sand pink
1948.258
Pitcher: copper lustre gray-brown band
1948.215
Pitcher: copper lustre blue bands
1948.189
Pitcher: copper lustre blue bands
1948.188
Pitcher: copper lustre blue bands
1948.195
Pitcher: copper lustre light brown bands
1948.217
Pitcher: copper lustre Sienna band w/floral motif
1948.242
Pitcher: copper lustre white band w/floral motif
1948.228
Pitcher: copper lustre tan bands
1948.223
Pitcher: copper lustre tan band
1948.220
Pitcher: copper lustre green bands
1948.263
Pitcher: copper lustre white band w/floral motif
1948.232
Pitcher: copper lustre green bands
1948.264
Pitcher: copper lustre yellow band
1948.262
Pitcher: copper lustre tan band w/geometric design
1948.218
Pitcher: copper lustre blue bands
1948.192
Pitcher: copper lustre tan bands
INV.13450
Pitcher: copper lustre blue band
INV.13451
Bowl: Mount Vernon
1961.222d
Saucer: St. Paul's Church, NY.
1940.303
Saucer: Log Cabin
1961.232b
Pitcher
1957.23b
Pitcher
1957.23a
Match case
1957.118
Plate: South Carolina
1940.315
Souvenir pencil
INV.4188.2
Plate: Congress Shall Make no Law...
1961.133
Plate: Doctor Syntax...Bees
1958.8[dup]
Saucer
1945.379b
Teabowl
1953.143a
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266h
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266f
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266i
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266e
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266g
Plate: Floral pattern; ...Rock China
1942.266j
The Battery, NYC
1938.430
Two Figures Walking
1983.32
Sugar bowl w/Lid
1957.69ab
Saucer: Mt. Vernon
1961.222f
Cup bowl: University of Maryland
1961.226a
Saucer: Baltimore Exchange
1961.181
Plate: Woodlands near Phila
1961.64
Plate: Boston State House
1961.69
Half-Length Portrait of a Woman; from disassembled Cummings album
1979.11c
Half-Length Portrait of a Child; from disassembled Cummings album
1979.12a
Portrait of a Woman in an Oval Frame; from disassembled Cummings album
1979.12b
Portrait of a Woman in an Oval Frame; from disassembled Cummings album
1979.12c
Plate: Columbia College
1961.75
Plate: Church in the City of New York
1940.306
Plate: Highlands Hudson River
1961.67
Plate: Philadelphia
1961.79
Plate: Hobart Town
1961.234
Plate: Commodore MacDonnough's Victory
1961.87
Candlestick
INV.622a
Plate: Washington Jefferson Franklin Lafayette....
INV.13579
Plate: Exchange Baltimore
1961.82
Plate: New York from Brooklyn Heights
1961.359
Plate: America National Bird
1961.350
Cup bowl: Landscape Scenes
1933.22a
Button
1997.5.56
Button
1997.5.57
Button
1997.5.58
Plate: Fraunces Tavern
INV.13576
Plate: Road to Lake George
1961.360
Vase
1943.246a
Pitcher: pink and copper lustre
INV.13440
Pitcher: copper lustre
INV.13443
Pitcher: copper lustre
1948.193
Plate: silver lustre
1951.238
Plate: silver lustre
1951.240
Cup: Silver lustre
1951.218a
Tea bowl: silver lustre
1951.212a
Bowl: Silver lustre w/Ship Motif
1951.236
Saucer: Silver lustre
1951.213b
Saucer: Silver lustre
1951.212b
Saucer: Silver lustre w/blue motif
1951.129b
Lid/stopper for teapot
INV.13063
Plate w/warmer
INV.13064
Spoon (Excelsior)
1979.113
Saucer: silver lustre
1951.108c
Saucer: silver lustre
1951.108d
Vase: Cream and Silver lustre
1951.201b
Vase: Cream and Silver lustre
1951.201a
Footed dish
1951.198
Top piece to fragrancer: white w/silver lustre
1957.200fr.1
Salt Cellar: Silver lustre
1951.205a
Salt Cellar: Silver lustre
1951.205b
Cup: Silver lustre
1951.218b
Bowl: tan w/silver lustre
1951.230