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Study for "Carmen Jones"
1944
2001.104
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Artist/Maker: Jon Corbino

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William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall Nomination decoration
copyrighted 1896
INV.7321
William M. Evarts Senate Campaign Ribbon
1885
INV.4364.3
William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart Nomination Spread
copyrighted 1896
INV.7320
William McKinley Inauguration Souvenir Badge
1897
INV.2175
William McKinley Presidential Medal
1901
1966.96
William McKinley Presidential Medal
1901
1966.110
William Pitt Medal
ca. 1766
1947.321
William Pitt Medal
ca. 1766
INV.3336
William Pitt Medal
1766
1947.322
William Russel Grace 100th Anniversary Commemorative Medal
1980
INV.5373
William Starling Powder Horn
1760
1947.91
William the Silent Award for Journalism medal
1950-1960
2007.18.4.2
William Windom Mint and Treasury Medal
1890
1221
Willkie
1940.630
Willkie
1940.639
Willkie
Z.3403
Willkie and McNary
1940.623
Willkie First Voter
Z.2660
Willkie for president of commonwealth and southern
1940
Z.2540
Willkie Second Million
Z.2704
Wilson/Caso
1974
2008.18.1.1
Win the war quicker with Dewey and Bricker
1944
INV.6641
Win what? with Wilkie
1940
Z.3254
Win with Taft
INV.6775
Win With Taft
INV.6783
Win With Willkie
1940.581
Win with Willkie
1940.863
Win with Willkie
1940.678
Win with Wilson
INV.6975
WIN WITH/WAGNER
1954
2008.18.1.20
Winchester '22 lever action rifle, missing side site: inscribed
1953.110
Winchester Model 1886 Rifle
1886-1898
1953.109
Winchester Single Shot High Wall Musket, Second Model
1899-1920
INV.7852
Winchester Single Shot Rifle (Highwall Standard Model)
1885-1910
1953.112
Wind toy: wood choppers
1860-1890
1966.1
Wind-up toy: horse-drawn buggy
ca. 1870
1955.5
Wind-up toy: three musicians
1900-1930
INV.7629
Wind-up toy: waltzers
1900-1930
1937.1557
Window glass fragments (3) from St. Paul's Chapel
1766
Z.1422a-c
Windows on the World
2007.6.78
Windows on the World
2007.6.79
Windup toy
1870-1900
INV.4514a-c
Windup toy: musician and dancer
1900-1930
INV.7622
Wine bottle
1910-1940
2002.1.306
Wine bottle
1959
2002.1.3419
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5806.1
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5802.50
Wine glass fragment
1770-1810
INV.10210.17
Wine glass fragment
1770-1810
INV.10210.16
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.6168.35
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5924.639
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5924.644
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5924.647
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.5924.648
Wine glass fragment
1760-1783
INV.6318.403
Wine glass fragments (2)
1770-1810
INV.10210.14-15
Wine glass fragments (5)
1770-1810
INV.10210.8-12
Wine glass fragments (9)
1770-1810
INV.10210.18-26
Wine label
ca. 1815
INV.110
Wine making hydrometer
1920-1960
2002.1.3264
Winemaking Plaquette
1900-1914
INV.10225
Wings for America
1940.837
Winston Churchill
1950-1970
INV.11004
Wire stand in pouch
ca. 1875
1932.151
Wisdom Leadership Willkie
1940.677
Wisk/beater
1800-1850
1920.99
With Willkie We Won't Need Relief
1940.719
Wm. H. Taft
1908
INV.7371
Wm. H. Taft for President
INV.6985
Wm. McKinley
1900
INV.6929[dup]
Woman figure
1850-1900
INV.4546
Women For Clinton Gore Light The Way For Change
2003.70.14
Women For Clinton Gore Light The Way For Change
2003.70.12
Women for Cuomo '94
1994
2003.70.1
Women NOW
1965-1975
2002.70.46
Women's Encampment for Peace & Justice
1983
2002.70.39
Women's National Republican Club Ribbon
ca. 1900
INV.2313
Women's power button
2006.5.132
Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association Medal
1920
INV.4236
Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association Medal
1920
INV.3562
Wonder blocks
ca. 1885
2000.272
Wood block and document from church in Holland which the Pilgrims attended
ca. 1620
186
Wood block in envelope
1600-1800
1974.49
Wood box containing six iron locks
1750-1850
INV.911a-f
Wood button fragments (2) excavated at Fort Haldimand
1760-1783
INV.5940.47-48
Wood buttons (2) excavated at Fort Lennox
1800-1820
INV.6196.66-67
Wood engraving tool
1850-1900
1936.475
Wood fragment
1800-1900
INV.10808
Wood fragment and twine from Chinese junk Keying
1840-1847
INV.303
Wood fragment from Abraham Lincoln's log cabin
ca. 1809
238
Wood fragment from battleship Niagara
ca. 1812
2008.42.405
Wood fragment from building in which the Declaration of Independence was signed
1750-1800
INV.836
Wood fragment from Merrimac
ca. 1862
2008.42.393
Wood fragment from Old Dutch Church w/document
1700-1800
INV.831
Wood fragment from ship "Tennessee"
1850-1864
INV.7565
Wood fragment from ship Cumberland
2008.42.403
Wood fragment from Sir William Johnson's coffin
1774
INV.825
Wood fragment from stage of Bowery Theatre
ca. 1845
Z.1282
Wood fragment from steamer "Osceola"
1880-1900
1941.850
Wood fragment from the "Merrimac" w/document
ca. 1862
INV.835
Wood fragment from the flag staff at Fort Sumter
ca. 1861
235
Wood fragment from the frigate "Constitution"
1795-1812
1941.831
Wood fragment from the steamship "Columbia"
ca. 1881
1941.853
Wood fragment from the steamship "Thomas McManus"
ca. 1861
1941.829
Wood fragment from U.S.S. Congress
2008.42.402
Wood fragment in envelope
INV.827
Wood fragment in envelope
INV.828
Wood fragment of the "Florida"
1850-1900
INV.1253e
Wood fragments from Confederate privateer Rattlesnake (ex-Nashville)
ca. 1863
2008.42.390
Wood fragments from the "Merrimac"
1860-1865
Z.932
Wood fragments from U.S. Frigate Alliance
1778
2008.42.391
Wood from tree under which George Fox preached w/docu. and label
1750-1844
INV.830
Wood graver
1850-1900
1936.477
Wood log from tree under which George Fox preached w/document
1750-1844
INV.838
Wood molding fragment from the steamboat "Lexington"
1885-1895
1941.852
Wood molding fragment from the steamship "Adirondack"
1880-1900
1941.851
Wood molding fragment from the steamship "Thomas Cornell"
ca.1863
1941.830
Wood molding from steamship "Saratoga"
ca. 1877
1941.827
Wood ornament fragment
1800-1900
INV.1091
Wood Printer's Blocks
1880-1910
2002.1.1083
Wood scrap
1850-1900
1936.481
Wood scrap
1850-1900
1936.480
Wood spindle
ca. 1861-1923
1941.884
Wood with document
INV.818
Woodcarving (bird)
1850-1900
INV.4454
Woodcarving (horse)
1850-1900
1952.348a
Wooden block
1800-1900
INV.8956
Wooden book
INV.824
Wooden box made from the bed of Robert Burns
1800-1860
INV.823
Wooden disk
1850-1900
Z.1547
Wooden disks (2)
1830-1880
Z.1868ab
Wooden end of hammock netting w/Liberty Cap carved in center from "Niagara"
ca. 1813 or 1913
1933.249f
Wooden figures
1850-1900
INV.8839
Wooden horse measuring stick
1850-1900
1953.299
Wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris
ca. 1780
1954.148
Wooden mallet
1830-1860
INV.6521
Wooden object
1940.15
Wooden object
1800-1900
INV.5807
Wooden ornament
INV.116
Wooden peg
1800-1850
Z.1817ab
Wooden soldier
1875-1925
INV.8834
Wooden stake
1800-1875
1941.762a
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1914-1918
1947.336
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1914-1918
1935.19d
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1913-1921
1966.75
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1914-1918
INV.4926
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1924
INV.4948
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1914-1918
1966.131
Woodrow Wilson Commemorative Medal
1914-1918
INV.10774
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Medal
1917
1966.144
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Medal
1913
1966.88
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Medal
1917
1966.103
Woods
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.59
Wool card
ca. 1820-1850
2079
Wool cards
1800-1840
Z.1681ab
Wool cards
1700-1750
1920.25ab
Wool wheel
N-353
Wool wheel
1800-1875
Z.3264
Wool wheel
Z.566
Wool wheel
Z.964b
Wool wheel (bench and wheel)
1750-1850
Z.964ab
Wool wheel (bench and wheel)
1750-1850
1920.23ab
Wool wheel (bench and wheel)
1750-1800
Z.56ab
Wool wheel (bench only)
1700-1800
N-355
Woolworth Building 75th Anniversary Medallion
1988
1988.64
Worcester table knife
ca. 1751-1783
1957.307a
WORK FOR PEACE NOV. 13 & 14 (dove)
ca. 1969
2003.64.46
Work for Peace Ribbon
2006.5.88
Work For Peace/ Nov. 13 & 14
1960-1970
2002.70.52
Work for Peace/Nov 13 & 14
ca. 1970
2003.25.1
Work shirt
2002.27
World Aids Day
1995
Z.3598.1
World Peace Pledge
1982
2002.74.134
World Peace through Nuclear Disarmament
1981
2002.70.10
World Trade Center 1975-2001/You can destroy...
2001-2002
2002.5.4
World Trade Center dust
2001
2002.19
World War I Medal
1914-1919
INV.5362
World War I Medal
1914-1918
198
World War I Medal
1919
1947.122
World War I Medal
1914-1919
INV.10213
World War I Medal
ca. 1910
Z.1489
World War I Medal
ca. 1920
1947.339
World War I Medal
Z.3568a
World War I Medals
INV.5154
World War I Plaquette
1917
INV.4932
World War I Plaquette
ca. 1914
1949.129
World War I Plaquette
1914-1918
INV.2802
World War II Commemorative Medal
Z.3573
World War II medal
ca. 1947
2001.118
World War II medal
ca. 1947
2001.119
World War II Medal
ca. 1945
INV.10246
World's Columbian Exposition "Half Dollar"
1893
1943.40
World's Columbian Exposition "Half Dollar"
1893
1941.465
World's Columbian Exposition Administrative Building Medal
1893
1940.29
World's Columbian Exposition Advertising Medal
1893
INV.4881
World's Columbian Exposition Award Medal
1893
INV.3695
World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Medal
1890-1893
1941.466
World's Columbian Exposition Medal
1893
INV.1780
World's Columbian Exposition Medal
1893
1936.725
World's Columbian Exposition Medal
1893
1956.210
World's Columbian Exposition Medal
1893
1950.12
World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal
1893
1941.467
World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal
1893
INV.3591
World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal
1893
1940.28
World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal
1893
INV.3689
World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Medal
1893
1948.566
World's Fair Souvenir Plate
1960s
2008.36.7
World's Fair Souvenir Scarf
1964
2008.36.3
World's Fair Souvenir Scarf
1964
2008.36.4
Worst Public Administration
Z.2803
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1670
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1671
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1672
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1673
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1674
Wrapper
1980-2000
2002.1.1675
Wrapper
1950-1980
2002.1.4820
Wrapper/ Candy
2002.1.1046
Wrapper/ Food
1940-1960
2002.1.982
Wrapper/ Food
1988
2002.1.984
Wrapper/ Food
1990-2000
2002.1.983
Write in Dick Gregory President Peace and Freedom
ca. 1968
2001.204
Writing case
1864-1865
1966.67
Writing case with accessories
1860-1890
INV.8517a-aaaa
Writing case with accessories
ca. 1862
INV.7787a-x
Writing desk
1840-1860
1946.199ab
Writing tablet with accessories
ca. 1889
INV.8547a-f
WTC
2001-2002
2002.5.23
WWI Commemorative Medal
Z.3568
WWI Commemorative Medal
Z.3570
WWI Commemorative War Medal for Albert Flood
Z.3567
WWI; white; Navy cap; marked LM Wright
1928-1930
1950.33
WWII Medal/Rank
INV.5194
Wyhoo: A Game for Old and Young
1906
2000.701
Wyoming Historical & Geological Society Commemorative Medal
1908
INV.5560
X.114[dup]
X.114[dup]
XX International Congress of Americanists Medal
1922
INV.5548
Y. M. D. C. House Ribbon
ca. 1870 or later
INV.2296
Y.M.D.C. Campaign Badge
1870 or later
INV.2267
Y.M.D.C. Ribbon
1870
INV.2268
Yale University Award Medal
ca. 1956
INV.10218
Yama
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.17
Yankee Doodle
ca. 1900
2000.775
Yankee Doodle
1899
2000.776
Yankee Doodle: A Game of American History
1895
2000.354
Yankee Peddler or What Do You Buy?
1865-1870
2000.666
Yardage
2002.1.4844
Yardage
2002.1.4845
Yardage
2002.1.4846
Yardgoods (2 lengths)
ca. 1939
2006.7.2.1-2
Yardstick with case
1850-1900
INV.7851a-d
Yellow dog w/basket with star cart
1860-1890
INV.4570
Yellow Ribbon
ca. 1900
INV.4123
YES I MIND IF YOU SMOKE
1988
2003.70.18
Yes Nixon: no jelly button
2006.14.10
Yes We Did
2009
2009.15
Yes yes Nanette Dembitz button
2006.14.77
Yodo
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.73
Yoke
ca. 1825-1850
Z.136
Yoke
1750-1850
2002
You Gotta Have Park! 1992
2003.97.30
Young citizens for Johnson
1964
2003.64.1
Young Folk's Cube Puzzle: Little Bo Peep
ca. 1875
2000.224
Young Folks Geographical Game
ca. 1890
2000.762
Young Folks Historical Game
ca. 1890
2000.761
Young People's Geographical Game
ca. 1890
2000.621
Youth for Ford Button
2006.14.8
Youth wants Roosevelt
INV.6654
Z.3116a
1863
Z.3116a
Z.3159
Z.3159
Z.3271
Z.3271
Z.3272
Z.3272
Z.3273
Z.3273
Z.3274
Z.3274
Z.3275
Z.3275
Z.941.1a-d-.71
ca. 1889
Z.941.1a-d-.71
Zachary Taylor Indian Peace Medal
After 1860
1966.80
Zachary Taylor Indian Peace Medal
1850 or later
1966.93
Zachary Taylor Indian Peace Medal
1850
1141
Zachary Taylor Indian Peace Medal
Probably 1850
1966.122
Zachary Taylor Presidential Medal
1850
INV.3516
Zachary Taylor Rosette Badge
ca. 1848
INV.2872
Zarela
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.72
Zebra
1875-1925
INV.4527
Zelosophic Society Ribbon
ca. 1900
INV.2856
Zinno
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.159
Zinno
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.160
Zinno
ca. 1960-1980
2007.6.161
Zouave jacket
1860-1865
1763
Zouave jacket
1860-1865
1962.3