Collection Highlights
Bird's Nest and Dog Roses
1867
1947.519
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and selective glazing with scratching out on paper
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Museum Collections
Underground Railroad
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Title |
Related People | Date | Object Number | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Antislavery token |
1838 |
INV.13745 |
|
 |
Basket |
ca. 1820-1830 |
1945.381 |
|
 |
Ceremonial New York City street sign for Frederick Douglass Landing |
2005 |
2006.25 |
|
 |
Dred Scott (ca. 1795-1858) |
|
After 1857 |
X.174 |
 |
Figural group |
ca. 1855 |
1945.390 |
|
 |
Frances Wright (1795-1852) |
1824 |
1955.263 |
|
 |
Frederick Douglass [seated portrait] |
PR.011.2 |
||
 |
Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia |
1888 |
1914.11 |
|
 |
General David Hunter (1802-1886) on Horseback |
|
c. 1864 |
1904.10 |
 |
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
|
1887 |
1937.35 |
