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Museum Collection Highlights
Fire engine condenser case of the Clinton Fire Company No. 41
ca. 1842
1937.1631
Wood, oil paint, gilding
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Museum Collections
Historical Artifacts
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| Title | Related People |
Date |
Object Number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Tammany Bank |
|
ca. 1875 |
1937.1237 |
 |
Slave shackles |
ca. 1866 |
1921.20 |
|
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Draft wheel |
ca. 1863 |
1865.6 |
|
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Fire engine condenser case of the Clinton Fire Company No. 41 |
ca. 1842 |
1937.1631 |
|
 |
Architect's Sign |
ca. 1837 |
1953.197 |
|
 |
Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati |
|
ca. 1802 |
1972.12ab |
 |
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris |
ca. 1780 |
1954.148 |
|
 |
Civil Defense Volunteer Organization Uniform |
1942-1945 |
1946.89a-c |
|
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Framed leaves from Abraham Lincoln's bier |
1865 |
1947.47 |
|
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Cake board |
1825-1835 |
1937.1562 |
