Collection Highlights
Slave shackles
Date:
ca. 1866
Object Number:
1921.20
Medium:
Steel
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Library Collection Highlights
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Freedom to the Slaves | ca. 1865 | PR.052.58 |
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Thomas Cole (1801-1848) | ca. 1845 | PR.012.2.885 |
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The Draft Riots in New York- The Battle in Second Avenue | 1863 | PR.020.100.4 |
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Minaret Turkish Cigarettes | PR.031.111.AMER.MIN | |
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Badge of the Society of the Cincinnati | ca. 1802 | 1972.12ab |
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A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands.. | 1670 | LIB.Y.1670.Den |
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Mayor George B. McClellan at the controls of the first subway train, October 27, 1904 | 1904 | PR.020.90.1 |
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Slant-front desk | 1777-1794 | 1947.461 |
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Lincoln visits General McClellan at Antietam | 1862, published later | PR.065.778.5 |
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Dragonfly table lamp | ca. 1900-1906 | N84.113.1 |
