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1. 2017.10.18 - Map

   Ierusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit...juxta designationem Christiani Adrichomii delineata et aeri incisa per Matthaeum Seutter... Abriss der Weltberuehmten Statt Ierusalem From: Lotter, Tobias Conrad (Seutter's son in law), Atlas. Augsburg, 1756 This is an imaginary plan of acnient Jerusalem at the time of Jesus, based upon Dutch theologian Christian van Adichrem's 1584 map of the same view. Many early mapmakers copied Ad...

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2. 2017.10.19 - Print

   Inscribed in graphite the center under image by unknown hand: Fifth Avenue Critics Inscribed lower left in plate in graphite under by artist: 100 proofs 10th state of 11? John Sloan was a part of the Ashcan School--a group of artists working in the early 1900s known for portraying gritty, realistic scenes of daily life in New York City. This print depicts two wealthy women surveying the streets of the city from an open-air carriage. They in...

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3. 2017.10.2 - Print

   Cairo, Pl. 86 & 87 Probably from Cornelis de Bruyn's 'Voyage au Levant c'est a dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &c., de meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte…', published by Henri de Kroonevelt, Delft, 1700. First edition in French, first published in Dutch in 1698 ('Reizen...door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia....'). Inscri...

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4. 2017.10.20 - Print

   Work on a Farm...this Summer. Join the US Crop Corps. See Your U.S. Employment Service or Your Local County Agent. Poster from World War II. Published: 1943, United States Government Printing Office, Washington DC. For the United States of War Information/ Division Public Inquiries Inscribed in image: Work on a farm...this Summer; Join the U.S. Crop Corps; See your U.S. Employment Service or Your Local County Agent Inscribed under image, ...

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5. 2017.10.21 - Drawing

   Drawing on ledger paper of two men in military garb holding guns hunting deer. Inscribed in ink at top right "Z.W. Bliss and Squint Eyes." Squint Eyes, also known as "Tichkematse," was a Cheyenne artist and military scout, well-known for his ledger art. During the late 19th century, many Plains Indians modified pictorial art traditionally executed on hide or Muslin to appear on non-Native trade materials like paper. Many drawings were done on ...

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6. 2017.10.22 - Print

   This print is a copy of "The Treaty of Penn with the Indians," an oil painting by Benjamin West, completed in 1771-2. The painting depicts William Penn entering into a "peace treaty" in 1683 with Tamanend, a chief of the Lenape ("Delaware Indians") Turtle Clan, under the shade of an elm tree near the village of Shackamaxon (now Kensington) in Pennsylvania. Penn stands on the shore of the Delaware River with Lenape peoples, as well as recently...

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7. 2017.10.23 - Print

   Printed pictorial poster [Most likely Shanghai]: The Da Tong Printing Factory, 1953 Literature: Jean-Yves Bajon, Les Annëes Mao, illustrated on p. 14. This poster illustrates 63 members of the People's Republic of China (PRC) government, presided over by Mao Ze Dong, surrounded by his six vice presidents. In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the 21 September 1949 establishment of the Communist PRC before a massive crowd at Beijing Square. By the...

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8. 2017.10.3 - Print

   Title in pencil lower left; signature lower right; initials within plate lower right State I of II Inscribed in pencil by artist under image, center: #10 Inscribed in pencil by artist under image, bottom left: the 5th Commandment: thou Shalt Kill! Hoeckner's prints and paintings were focused on the horrors of WWI and the rise of Fascism. In "The Fifth Commandment, Thou Shalt Kill," a god-like military figure commands over a regiment of sold...

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9. 2017.10.4 - Painting

   Indian trade watercolor captioned in French, "Montuze du dieu des musulmans, appelée bouratk (?)," 1818-1828. Produced for the French trade in India. This is an example of a trade watercolor made by an Indian artist for a French consumer. Eighteenth and nineteenth century European travelers to India wanted to collect or send images of their travels home, and often hired Indian painters to do the job. These paintings, done in a European style ...

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10. 2017.10.5 - Print

    The American artist Rockwell Kent is best known for his book illustrations and his popular natural landscapes. This print signals his turn toward social reform and politics. Starting in the 1920s, and especially during and after World War II, he developed a style of bold, sculptural landscapes and solitary figures, and of socially-conscious subject matter. Kent made the print for the American Artist Group (AAG) in New York, who printed an edi...

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11. 2017.10.6 - Print

    Reginald Marsh's depictions of 1920s-40s New York City street life and entertainment are celebrated for bringing a transitioning urban America to light. Many of his works focused on the female body in public spaces newly open to women. Here, women in a burlesque theater parade past a leering, mostly male audience. Disembodied from their heads and lit from below, their voluptuous bodies are dramatically highlighted, giving the scene a menacing...

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12. 2017.10.8 - Print

    Engraver's name in plate as Sluyter. Plate 36 From Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium Numbered in the plate, lower right: 36 Though the odds were stacked against her as a woman, naturalist and illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian, is among the most important contributors to the field of natural history. In 1699 she traveled to South America with her daughter to study insects in Suriname, resulting in the publication of her magnum opus, Met...

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13. 2017.12.1 - Card, Trade

    J. Ottman Lithography, New York, NY On verso: 1888 monthly calendar; "Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sryup should always be used for Children Teething. It Soothes the Child. Softens the Gums. Allays all Pain. Cures Wind Colic, and is the Best Remedy for Diarrhea. Twenty-Five Cents a Bottle." in English, German, French. This is an advertisement for children's "soothing syrup" that contained morphine. Morphine was isolated from opi...

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14. 2017.12.2 - Card, Trade

    Ayer's Ague Cure Is Warrented To Cure All Malarial Disorders. Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass" Manufacturers of patent medicines, which were sold directly to the public without a physician’s prescription, realized the popularity of alcohol-based remedies. J. C. Ayer marketed a number of different tonics that included alcohol for a variety of ailments, including the Ayer’s Ague Cure for malaria. It is likely that it did little to ...

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15. 2017.12.3 - Ad, Newspaper

    Harper's Weekly (American, 1857-1916), pages 31-32, The Pleasures of Tobacco and the Consequences, January 11, 1868. Contrary to popular belief, the negative health effects of tobacco were noted by the early 1800s, making physicians increasingly cautious about tobacco. In this Harper's Weekly illustration, a man who smokes in bed is later shown in a coffin with his pipe resting on top. However, because of successful marketing efforts, the a...

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16. 2017.12.4 - Advertisement

    R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Advertisement claiming more doctors smoked Camel cigarettes than any other As evidence of the health risks of smoking mounted in the 1900s, tobacco companies cast doubts on medical data and advertised smoother and lighter blends as safer versions of the standard cigarette. In response, the Camel Company launched an incredibly successful eight-year magazine and radio campaign starting in 1946 claiming that mo...

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17. 2017.2.1 - Print

    "Prunus Sylvestris," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 494 from Herbarium Blackwellianum, Selectum sive Collectio Stirpium or Sammlung der Gewache by Christopher Jacob Trew, revised German edition, Nuremberg, 1757-1773. After Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, London, originally published 1737-1739. The engraver Nikolaus Freidrich Eisenberger produced 170 plates for the revised and expanded version of Elizabeth Blackwell's "A Cur...

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18. 2017.2.2 - Print

    "Staphylodendron," hand-colored copperplate engraving from Hortus Eystettensis (The Garden of Eichstätt), by Basil (Basilius) Besler, engraved by Wolfgang Kilian et al. Nuremberg, 1613; second edition, 1640. Also pictures Clematis daphnoides. Staphyleaceae is a small family of flowering plants native to the Northern Hemisphere and also South America. Basil Besler was an apothecary and botanist who managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad...

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19. 2017.2.3 - Print

    "Anagyris Angustifoliis," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 8 from Hortus Eystettensis (The Garden of Eichstätt), by Basil (Basilius) Besler, engraved by Wolfgang Kilian et al. First edition, Nuremberg, 1613. Anagyris (Oro de Risco) is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Basil Besler was an apothecary and botanist who managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany. The Bishop's remarkable ...

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20. 2017.2.4 - Print

    "Guaiacana," hand-colored copperplate engraving, Plate 13 from Hortus Eystettensis (The Garden of Eichstätt), by Basil (Basilius) Besler, engraved by Wolfgang Kilian et al. Nuremberg, second edition, 1640. Guaiacana is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, and small bushes. Basil Besler was an apothecary and botanist who managed the gardens of Bishop Johann Conrad in Eichstatt, Germany. The Bishop's remarkab...

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