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Baby walker
1700-1800
INV.14959
Pine
Artist/Maker: Unidentified maker

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Afternoon Hastings Landing. Palisades Rocks in Shadow, New York
1836-37
1952.410
Afternoon Looking North. On the Potomac. Virginia
1830s-40s
1947.556
Afternoon Rainbow. Boston Common from Charles Street Mall. Boston, Massachusetts
1829-34 or 1850s
1952.411
Afternoon Tea
c. 1891-1900
1957.308.44
Afternoon Tea; The Mirror; The Old Bear
c. 1891-1900
1957.308.54
Afternoon View of the Roman Campagna with the Claudian Aqueduct in the Distance, Italy; verso: sketch of ruins in the Roman Campagna
1861
X.443e
Agricultural Institute, Farmingdale, Long Island, New York; verso: sketch of same view
1935
1981.121
Alaeutian (Three Men)
1866-68
1872.23.111
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849): Silhouette
1812
Z.2383
Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856)
c. 1856
1970.36
Albert Gallatin's (1761-1849) Tomb
1872
Z.2013.3
Albert Smith, M.D.
c. 1880
1951.20
Albert Smith, M.D. (1798-1884): Silhouette
1820-1840
Z.2482
Album
1866-67
1963.168
Album (spine labeled "SCRAP BOOK")
1846-47
1920.142
Album containing around 302 small drawings, including insert of smaller bound group of ten sketches
1817-49
1951.743
Album containing six silhouettes
1822-1825
Z.2563a-f
Album of 13 Folios of Brooklyn scenes, "Shore Road"
1950
INV.14846
Album of 278 Sketches of Houses, People, Animals, Etc., 2 Prints, all laid, and 13 Independent Sheets
c. 1859-1911
1960.107
Album of Watercolors, 42 Folios, 12 blank, 1 loose watercolor (5 English, 26 American and Canadian) and Journal
1831
1948.621
Album with 106 Folios, 2 blank, containing sketches, "Types Drawn from Life in Subways, Parks, Lectures, Cafeterias, Beaches, etc. N.Y.C. and Vicinity"
INV.15054
Album with 8 Folios," Sketches with Scenes in Prospect Park...," Brooklyn, New York
1950
INV.14845
Alexander Anderson, (?-1811), Royal botanist of St. Vincent, West Indies; verso: sketches of five riders on horseback
1799
1912.10
Alexander Cumming McWhorter (c. 1762-1808)
c. 1800
1895.11
Alexander Fedorovitch Kerensky (1881-1970)
1928