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Euphemia Toussaint (1815-1829)
ca. 1825
1920.6
Watercolor on ivory
Related Person: Euphemia Toussaint

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"Silk"
1820-1850
1941.95
"Skyscraper" hand mirror
ca. 1928
2006.10
"The Bottle Has Done Its Work - It Has Destroyed the Infant & the Mother. It Has Brought the Son and the Daughter to Vice and to the Streets, and Has Left the Father a Hopeless Maniac."
ca. 1850
2010.16.14h
"The Bottle is Brought Out for the First Time. The Husband Induces His Wife Just to Take a Drop"
ca. 1850
2010.16.14a
"The Chariot of Venus" mantel clock
ca. 1803-1810
INV.235
"The House that Jack Built"
1844
1945.147
"The House that Jack Built"
1820-1850
1937.601
"The Husband in a State of Furious Drunkenness Kills His Wife with the Instrument of All Their Misery."
ca. 1850
2010.16.14g
"The Last Supper"
1820-1880
Z.3057
"The Late Lamented President Lincoln"
1865
INV.4581
"The Love of Truth Mark the Boy"
ca. 1806
1941.117
"The Picture Alphabet"
1850-1855
1937.603
"The Storming of Quebec"
ca. 1800
1941.111
"The Tree of Knowledge"
1792
1957.208
"Unable to Obtain Employment, They Are Driven by Poverty into the Streets to Beg and by [illeg.] Means They Still Supply the Bottle."
ca. 1850
2010.16.14d
"Venetian" desk lamp
1910-1920
N84.28
"William Penn's Treaty with the Indians"
ca. 1800
1941.96
"Workbox" school desk
2000
2003.90
1 from set of 12 side chairs
1815-1820
1957.241f
1 from Set of 4 Side Chairs
1850-1870
1952.88d
1 from Set of 4 Side Chairs
1850-1870
1952.88a
1 from set of 6 Side Chairs
1850-1860
1969.9e
1 from set of 6 Side Chairs
1815-1820
1957.205f
1 from set of 6 Side Chairs
1850-1860
1969.9i
1 from set of 6 Side Chairs
1850-1860
1969.9f
Creative: Tronvig Group