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Dates
Before the Common Era (BCE)
Seventeenth Century
| 1600 |
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Urashima Tarō – Painted scroll, Japan |
| 1610 |
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Sidereus nuncius |
| 1611 |
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The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New |
| 1623 |
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William Shakespeare Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies |
| 1639 |
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William Harvey (1578-1657). De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio |
| 1646 |
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Hymnal – Crimea, Kafay |
| 1650 |
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René Descartes (1596-1650). Renati Des-Cartes Musicae compendium |
| 1658 |
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Johannes Nevins (1627-before 1672). Document pertaining to a plot of land |
| 1659 |
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John Milton (1608-1674). Letterbook |
| 1660-1664 |
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Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729). Common Place Book and Sermon Notes |
| 1665 |
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Micrographia |
| 1670 |
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Nogŏltae ŏnhae – Korea |
| 1673 |
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Kitamura, Kigin, 1625-1705. Genji monogatari kogetsu shō |
| 1678 |
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727). The Three Mysterious Fires |
| 1693 |
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New |
| 1693-1743 |
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Court of Raja Jaisingh II (1686-1743). Yantraraja |
| 1696 |
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) and Giovanni Cassini (1677-1756). Planisphere terrestre |
| 1699 |
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William III, King of Great Britain (1650-1702). Anno regni Gulielmi III Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo |
Eighteenth Century
| 1700 |
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Hornbook mould, 18th century? – Wood, England? |
| 1702 |
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Orpheus Britannicus. |
| 1722 |
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Peter I, Czar of Russia (1672-1725). Patent |
| 1730 |
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The Beggar's Opera – playing cards, England |
| 1734 |
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William Caslon (1693-1766). A Specimen by W. Caslon |
| 1738-1772 |
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François de Cuvilliés (1695-1768). A collection of engravings |
| 1739 |
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Leonard Euler (1707-1783). Tentamen novae theoriae musicae |
| 1746-1754 |
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Thomas Wright (1711-1786). Various & Valuable Sketches and Designs of Buildings |
| 1747-1758 |
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New York City, Coroner's Office Minutes of the Coroner's Proceedings in the City and County of New York |
| 1762 |
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James Adam (d. 1794). British Order – Ink and wash on paper |
| 1766 |
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Vesperal – Manuscript on paper, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| 1767 |
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Elevazione ortografica della Tribuna, e del Presbiterio della Basilica Lateranense |
| 1768 |
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A plan of the boundary lines between the Province of Maryland and the three lower counties on the Delaware |
| 1770 |
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King's College Board of Trustees Draft of medical diploma of Robert Tucker |
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1729-1796). Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoriya, Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia dannyi Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniia |
| 1771 |
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John Hunter (1728-1793). The Natural History of the Human Teeth |
| 1774 |
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James Graham. Doctor Bard's Lectures upon the Palsey |
| 1775 |
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Abraham Swan (ca. 1720-ca. 1765). A Collection of Designs in Architecture |
| 1778-1788 |
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Whittier Perkins' Yankee Doodle: A Collection of Dancing Tunes, Marches & Song Tunes, ca. 1778-1788 |
| 1780 |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Composing stick |
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Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827). Portrait of Alexander Hamilton |
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Alexander and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Gold double-band wedding ring and wedding handkerchiefs |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Miniature portrait |
| 1785-1828 |
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DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828). Letterbooks |
| 1786 |
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Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784). Poems on various subjects, religious and moral |
| 1788 |
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John Jay (1745-1829). Federalist Number 5 |
| 1789-1796 |
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Tammany Society Journal & Rules of the Council of Sachems of Saint Tammany's Society |
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Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804). Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court of Connecticut |
| 1791 |
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Luigi Galvani (1737-1798). De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius |
| 1793-1799 |
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Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). Diarium commentarium vitae Alexander Anderson |
| 1795 |
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Archibald Robertson (ca. 1745-1813). New York from Long Island |
| 1798-1799 |
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George Washington (1732-1799). Proposals for the additional army |
| 1799 |
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France. Ministère de la Marine Comptabilité particulière du Citoyen David, pour l'Expedition d'Angleterre |
Nineteenth Century
| 1800 |
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Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). Wood engraving of garden-house scene |
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Tibetan Printing Block |
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L. S. Alexander Gumby (1885-1961). Collection of Negroiana |
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Lexicographical Works – Manuscript, Nestorian, on paper |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). School for Scandal – Manuscript |
| 1801 |
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Joseph Mazzinghi (1765-1844). Chains of the Heart, or the Slave by Choice |
| 1801-1900 |
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Fabric "cheat sheet" – China, ink on silk |
| 1808 |
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Kara George (1762-1817). Agreement – Belgrade |
| 1810 |
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Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Die X Gebothe Gottes |
| 1816 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Wellingtons-Sieg, oder: Die Schlacht bey Vittoria, Opus 91. |
| 1817 |
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William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883). Litchfield notebook of law lecture courses |
| 1818 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus |
| 1819 |
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René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781 - 1826). De l'Auscultation Médiate |
| 1820 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Notes on Mozart's Requiem and sketch for Missa Solemnis |
| 1822 |
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The African Union Hymn book, designed as a companion for the pious, and friends of all denominations |
| 1824 |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Arithmetic exercises from manuscript sum book |
| 1826 |
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Alexander I, Czar of Russia (1777-1825). Funeral scroll |
| 1827-1838 |
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John James Audubon (1785-1851). The Birds of America |
| 1828 |
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Robert Stephenson and Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "America" – Watercolor drawing |
| 1829 |
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Alexander Bestuzhev (1797-1837). On Your Namesake Day |
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Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838). Memorie. In tre volume. Seconda editione corretta, ampliata e accresciuta |
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Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893). Muslin bodice of the costume worn as Juliet |
| 1830 |
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Alexandra Vereshchagina (1810-1873). Autograph album |
| 1833 |
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Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858). Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi no uchi: Fujikawa (Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō: Fujikawa station) |
| 1834 |
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Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892). United States Custom House |
| 1835 |
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Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893). Journal by Frances Anne Butler |
| 1837 |
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Nicholas I, Czar of Russia (1796-1855). Autograph letter, signed, to Count Alexander Benckendor |
| 1839 |
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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851). Historique et description des procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama |
| 1840 |
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Trinity Church perspective view – Watercolor on paper |
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Minard Lafever (1797-1854). Drawings for unbuilt church in Brooklyn Heights, 1840 |
| 1841 |
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Georgios Kalognomos Enchiridion peri synallagmatikon |
| 1843 |
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Washington Hand Press |
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Johannes Andreae (d. 1348). De arbore consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognitionis spiritualis |
| 1845-1846 |
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). Yume no ukihashi (Bridge of dreams) |
| 1846 |
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John Plumbe (1809-1857). Daguerreotype portrait of Alexander Anderson |
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David Octavius Hill (1802-1870). A Series of Calotype Views of St. Andrews |
| 1849 |
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William Pratt (1822-1893). Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe |
| 1850-1851 |
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Martin M. Lawrence (1808-1859). Portrait of John Watson Webb |
| 1851 |
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Harper & Brothers Contract between Herman Melville and Harper & Brothers for "The Whale," [Moby Dick] |
| 1854 |
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Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. |
| 1855 |
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Amanoto Toryū (1818-1877). Kyōka chakizai gazōshū |
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Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Leaves of Grass |
| 1860 |
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not |
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A. A. Turner. Portrait of Florence Nightingale |
| 1861 |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Manuscript letter in John Hay's hand, signed by Lincoln |
| 1863-1869 |
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Louis Prang (1824-1909). Views in Central Park, New York |
| 1865 |
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Architectural Iron Works of New York. Illustrations of Iron Architecture |
| 1869-1870 |
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Autobiography of J. S. Mill, written by himself |
| 1872 |
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Daly's Theatre, New York City. Account book |
| 1873-1878 |
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Stanford White (1853-1906). Album of family letters with sketches |
| 1878 |
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Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893). Ueber die Localisationen der Gehirn-Krankheiten |
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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Symphony IV, (Romantic) |
| 1882-1883 |
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Memorial to the Columbia College Board of Trustees |
| 1886 |
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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906). Portrait of Fredrick A. P. Barnard, 1886 |
| 1889 |
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Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938). Communism |
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Hirobumi Itō (1841-1909). Teikoku kenpō, Kōshitsu tenpan gige [Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan and Imperial ordinance] |
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Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908). Indian Suite, [Suite No. 2, Op. 48] |
| 1890 |
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Chen Menglei (1651-1741) and Jiang Tingxi (1669-1732). Qin ding gu jin tu shu ji cheng |
| 1891 |
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Dwight's retirement folio – Commissioned for Theodore W. Dwight by Columbia Law School students of the classes of 1891 and 1892 |
| 1893 |
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Amanda Smith (1837-1915). An Autobiography: the story of the Lord's dealing with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist |
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, a story of New York, by Johnston Smith |
| 1894 |
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Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909). Typed letter, signed, to Stanford White, with initial sketch of Low Library, Columbia University |
| 1895 |
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Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924). Drawing for Doorknob, Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1895 |
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Yale & Towne. Doorknob, Guaranty Building – Cast iron |
| 1896 |
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Kelmscott Press. Specimen copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer |
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Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858-1935). X-ray photograph of lead shot in hand |
| 1899 |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). The Yellow Wall Paper |
| nd |
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George Sanders (1774-1856), After. Portait of George Gordon, Lord Byron |
Twentieth Century
| 1900-1904 |
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William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932). Diary, Rapid Transit System of New York |
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Collection of magical prayers and "images" – Manuscript on parchment, Ethiopian |
| 1901-1930 |
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Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie Corporation of New York Records of College Donations, New York |
| 1902-1904 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Drawing of dining room, Dana House, Springfield, Illinois |
| 1904 |
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Columbia University Silver cup presented to Edward MacDowell by Columbia students |
| 1906 |
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K. F. von Gan. Czar Nicholas II with his family – Photograph |
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). Notes and rough drafts |
| 1908 |
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Arthur Rackham (1867 -1939). Sketchbook for A Midsummer Night's Dream, ca. 1908 |
| 1910 |
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Carnegie Family Convention, Pittsburgh – Black and white photograph |
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Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks |
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Jane Addams (1860-1935). Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes ... |
| 1911 |
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Yatsuka Hozumi (1860-1912). Kenpō Teiyō [Outline of the Constitution] |
| 1912-1913 |
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Totem und Tabu |
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Fortune Theatre Model |
| 1913 |
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Greene & Greene. Detail drawing of decorative window, Earle C. Anthony House, Los Angeles, California |
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Emily Grace Briggs (1867-1944). The Deaconess in the Ancient and Medieval Church |
| 1914 |
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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Tender Buttons, Objects, Food, Rooms |
| 1915 |
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Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940). The House on Henry Street |
| 1917 |
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Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908). Drawing for Dater House, Montecito, California |
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Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908). Tile made for Dater House |
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Two Stories |
| 1918-1919 |
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Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942). Photograph of slum children, ca. 1918-19 |
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Harold Miller Lewis (1893-1978). Laboratory notebook, recording Edwin H. Armstrong's discovery of superheterodyne reception |
| 1920 |
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Jo Davidson (1883-1952). Portrait of V. K. Wellington Koo |
| 1921 |
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Hendrick Petrus Berlage (1856-1934). Frank Lloyd Wright. Wendingen |
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Sigmund Freud (1859-1939). Contract for "The Psycho-Analytic Problem of the War" |
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Academic cap worn by Marie Curie while receiving honors at American colleges and universities |
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Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934). Impressions of America |
| 1923 |
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Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Portrait of Myself |
| 1924 |
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Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Self-portrait |
| 1927 |
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Gustav Holst (1874-1934). Egdon Heath |
| 1929 |
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Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) and Frederic Dannay (1905-1982). The Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction |
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Hart Crane (1899-1932). The Bridge |
| 1930-1931 |
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Lewis Hine (1874-1940). Photograph of welder, Empire State Building |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Application to Union Seminary |
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Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva Skobtsova (1891-1945). Untitled |
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James Joyce (1882-1941). Ulysses |
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Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942). Drawing for a proposed new lobby, Audubon Ballroom, New York City |
| 1931 |
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Chinese Paper Gods – Chinese paper, ink, and watercolor |
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Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947). Medal, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931 |
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Joseph Urban (1872-1933). "Blue Nursery Scene," The Ziegfeld Follies, 1931 |
| 1932 |
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Tatsukichi Minobe (1873-1948). Kenpō satsuyō [Principles of the Constitution] |
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Alexei Remizov (1877-1957). Deed (Gramota) |
| 1933 |
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Frances Perkins (1880-1965). Draft notes of reply to F. D. Roosevelt on her nomination to the Cabinet |
| 1934 |
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Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Maquettes made for costumes and scenery for Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts |
| 1936 |
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[Pigŭk sosŏl] Pulsanghan insaeng (An unhappy life) |
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Yŏngsŏn (n.d.). Syongdo mallyŏn pulgasari chyŏn (The account of a pulgasari in the last years of Songdo) |
| 1937 |
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). Untitled Poem, Album |
| 1938 |
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Edmonston Studio. Harlan Fiske Stone with his law clerks – Photograph, Washington, DC. |
| 1939 |
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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Ceramic cup, saucer, plate from the "Moby Dick" pattern |
| 1940 |
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René Bouchet. Portrait of Bennett Cerf |
| 1942 |
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945). Rumanian Folk Music |
| 1942-1945 |
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Varian Fry (1907-1967). Surrender on Demand |
| 1943 |
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Delano and Aldrich. Marine Terminal, LaGuardia Airport |
| 1944-1947 |
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Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972). Drawing, Dowling Theater, Times Square, New York City |
| 1945 |
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Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968). Night Has a Thousand Eyes |
| 1946 |
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Peter H. L. Chang (Zhang Xueliang), (1901-2001). "Recollections of Xian Incident [Review]" |
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Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965). Marian Anderson |
| 1947 |
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Harrison & Abramovitz. Sketch of original plans for United Nations building |
| 1948 |
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Thomas Merton (1915 -- 1968). The Seven Storey Mountain |
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Telford Taylor (1908-1998). US Army, Photo No. OMT-IX-P-7 |
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). Early draft of The Eclipse of May 29, 1919 [The Rose Tattoo] |
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Samuel (1899-1971) and Bella Cohen Spewack (1899-1990). Kiss Me, Kate, "Script A" |
| 1949-1959 |
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Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963). Chūgoku sanjū emaki |
| 1949 |
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Telford Taylor (1908-1998). Statement on Nuremberg Trials for the International News Service |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000). Annie Allen |
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First Tony award for Best Book (Musical), 1949 |
| 1950 |
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Hiroshima Project |
| 1950-1980 |
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John Howard Griffin (1920-1980). Journal |
| 1951 |
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[Kodae sosŏl] Tang Taejyong chyŏn (Biography of Tang Taizong) |
| 1952 |
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Ralph Ellison (1914-1994). Working notes and outline for Invisible Man |
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). Autograph letter, signed to Daniel Longwell |
| 1954 |
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Mikhail Taube (1869-1961). Reminiscences, 1900-1917 [Fragment of a memoir] |
| 1956 |
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Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Howl (for Carl Solomon) |
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Douglas Moore (1893-1969). "Augusta's Aria," from The Ballad of Baby Doe |
| 1957 |
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Herbert L. Matthews (1900-1977). Interview with Fidel Castro in Sierra Maestras Mountains |
| 1958 |
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Dawn Powell (1896-1965). Charts & Casts & Notes for Golden Spur |
| 1959-1960 |
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Faried Adams R. v. Adams and others. South African Mass Treason Trial |
| 1961 |
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Judy Garland (1922-1969). "The Judy Garland Story" |
| 1962 |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963). Executive Order, Equal Opportunity in Housing |
| 1963 |
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Presidential Medal of Freedom and Certificate Awarded to Herbert H. Lehman |
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Photograph of President Johnson presenting the Medal of Freedom to Edith Altschul Lehman |
| 1967 |
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Tom Stoppard (b. 1937). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead |
| 1969 |
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Robert Wilson. "The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud," A Three Act Dance-Theatre Concert, Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| 1970 |
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Kate Millett (b. 1934). Sexual Politics [Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Ph.D.] |
| 1974 |
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Untitled, 1974 |
| 1977 |
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Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993). Transcript of Oral History Interview |
| 1983 |
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W. R. Johnson (b. 1933). Lilac Wind, poems by W.R. Johnson on a pulp painting made by Claire Van Vliet with Kathryn Clark |
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Black glasses owned by Tennessee Williams at the time of his death |
| 1985 |
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Archdiocese of Sao Paulo. Projeto A "Brasil: Nunca Mais" |
| 1989 |
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Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company. Maquette for The Reed, by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, translated by Zahra Partovi |
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Antonio Hernandez Palacios (1921-2000) and Will Eisner (b. 1917). Les Droits de l'homme |
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Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993). China Diary-Tiananmen |
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