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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
ca. 1941
1987.16
Plaster with purplish red-brown stipple finish
Related Person: Theodore Roosevelt

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7th N.Y. dress helmet
1880-1900
1954.118f
7th N.Y. dress helmet; 1883-1888
1888
1932.166
7th NY dress, Shako; 1859-63
1860-1864
1953.164
911 Broken Heart
2001
2002.54
A Misunderstanding
19th century
S-45
A 'pital Joke
Late 19th century
1996.8
A B C Blocks
ca. 1883
2000.244
A Bad Egg
1852
PR.010.1852.3
A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands..
1670
LIB.Y.1670.Den
A Brook in the Woods
c. 1854
1918.129
A Buffalo Surround in the Pawnee Country (c. 1837)
1840
1949.273
A Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas...
1787
LIB.Y1787
A discourse upon vaccination, or, Kine-pock inoculation: with remarks upon the occasional prevalence of the small-pox, and the measures necessary to prevent it.
A Dissertation on the Influence of Climate on Longevity
1846
LIB.GF71.S65.1846
A Dog Stretching
Late 19th century
INV.643
A Frolic At The Old Homestead
1887
1929.88
A group advocating AIDS research marches down Fifth Avenue during the 14th annual Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in New York
June 27, 1983
A Hillside Path in Union Hill, New Jersey
1865
2008.44.3
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
MSS.BV.Benjamin.Bullivant
A Joyous Occasion at Roseland Ballroom
1978
2004.15
A Matter Of Opinion
December 9, 1884
1936.631
A Matter of Opinion
1884
1929.104
A memoir of Granville Sharp : to which is added Sharp's "Law of passive obedience," and an extract from his "Law of retribution"
1836
LIB.HT1162.S85
A Mermaid [Nereid], Fontana di Nettuno, Bologna, Italy
1878-1883
1935.85.1.13
A New Dissected Map of the United States
ca. 1887
2000.547
Creative: Tronvig Group