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Bill of sale for John, 16 yr old boy for $400 by David Hayne
Letter stating that $500 was paid for the purchase of Joseph Boswell, signed by Langhorne
Bill of sale for 3 enslaved persons sold to Jacob Adler in Jonesboro for $4500
![Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1232856&t=t)
Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson
![Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1232857&t=t)
Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson
List of estate items, including slaves. Top reads 'And appraisement Bill of the estate of Lucy Bryan...'
List of estate items with slaves at bottom of second page. Top reads "Inventory of the estate of John Ivan (?)"
List of estate items with slaves at bottom of second page. Top reads "Inventory of the estate of John Ivan (?)"
Letter begins, "We William Bryan Anderson Rice and Matthew Rice being first sworn..." Lists slaves, animals, etc and values for each.
Letter begins, "We William Bryan Anderson Rice and Matthew Rice being first sworn..." Lists slaves, animals, etc and values for each.
Slavery tax receipts for State of Virginia : 1860 and 1862. For Peter S. Roller.
Petition to obtain compensation from the state of South Carolina for the loss of an enslaved man, Laurens, who was impressed into public service for the Confederate States
Thompson, Alfred - Application of Eliza Mercer of Howard County, Maryland, for compensation for the war service of her slave, Alfred Thompson, an enlistee in the 39th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, Company E., 1865.
Appraisal of enslaved people from the estate of Samuel Turner, listing their names and values
State's conveyance of $500 to Edmund Bacon for enslaved woman, Maria
Bill of sale of slaves to settle estate debt
Farley Vale Estate Inventory
Letter from abolitionist soliciting for Cradle of Liberty distributors, signed by Maria Chapman
Davidson, F. L., Note from Davidson of Water Valley, offering his slave blacksmith for hire. Top reads "Water Valley August 23, 1861..."
Fletcher, Elizabeth - Affadavit certifying that Elizabeth Fletcher is a free woman. Top reads "District of Columbia, Washington County..."
Will and testament of Daniel Juzan
Lafayette, James Armistead - Facsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's original certificate commending James Armistead Lafayette for his revolutionary war service with portrait after John B. Martin.
Inventory and appraisement of the estate of Daniel McWilliams
Inventory and appraisement of the estate of Daniel McWilliams
Inventory and appraisement of the estate of Daniel McWilliams
Recently Digitized and Updated Collections See More
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
499 items
The Black Experience in Children's Books: Selections from Augusta Baker's Bibliographies
304 items
Scrapbooks of New York City views
3,141 items
Li ji ji shi: er shi wu juan
26 items
Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character
50 items
Collection of ledgers and cash books covering the period 1891-1925
15 items
Sketchbook archive
6 items
Bungalow magazine
74 items
Japanese prints
826 items
Six Patriotic posters for the First World War
12 items
B'nai B'rith messenger
1,452 itemsNew York City directories
290 items
Century Company records
30,936 itemsMaps of North America
5,286 items
Jules Fisher collection of Jo Mielziner Designs
204 items
Patrick Kelly collection of audio-visual recordings
22 items
National Dance Institute Video Archive
749 items
Yizkor Book Collection
1,284 items
TAG Foundation Video Archive
158 items
Yaddo records
154 items
Yiddish theater collection
721 items
Wadleigh High School Yearbooks
70 items
Morris Huberland
18,392 items
Weltchronik
1,433 items
The Villager
2,660 items
Duyckinck family papers
1,700 items
Prints depicting dance
2,657 items
Martha Swope photographs
62,759 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
1,569 items
Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed animals
29 items
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Decorative prints for purchase: choose from archival prints framed art stretched canvas vintage wood and wall murals.
Photography Collections See More
Halloween
35 items
Bill Barvin Location Photograph Archive
215 items
Morris Rosenfeld Photographs
260 items
Walter Silver photographs
2,769 items
New York Subways
42 items
Martha Swope photographs
62,759 items
Outer Boroughs: New York beyond Manhattan
86 items
Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file
57,201 items
Photographs from the American country woman series
30 items
Variety, vaudeville & burlesque
185 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,743 items
New York Public Library photographs
30 items![Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=4038999&t=r)
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
41,337 items
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999, by Dylan Stone
25,428 items
The Middle East in Early Prints and Photographs
9,194 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,049 items
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
5,086 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,863 items
Photographs of Indonesia
1,812 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,242 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
Dance in Photographs and Prints
1,501 items
Photographic views of the United States
1,326 items
Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs
1,156 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
26,904 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
669 items
The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs
651 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 itemsEarly American Manuscripts Project See More
James Madison papers
368 items
Boston Committee of Correspondence records
258 items
Thomas Jefferson papers
58 items
Richard Henry Lee letters
17 items
Philip Mazzei papers
26 items
Alexander Hamilton papers
40 items
Henry Knox papers
32 items
Silas Deane letters
11 items
Joseph Hawley papers
40 items
Theodorus Bailey Myers collection
1,804 items
Hugh Gaine papers
24 items
Schieffelin family papers
6 items
Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order records
16 items
Alexander Anderson papers
4 items
Gerry-Townsend papers
14 items
Robert Morris papers
100 items
Samuel Adams papers
2,492 items
Abraham Yates, Jr. papers
490 items
Livingston family papers
112 itemsPublic Domain Picks See More
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Farm Security Administration Photographs
26,904 itemsThe Green Book
23 items
Changing New York
2,185 items
Indian coloured drawings: a collection of 177 original paintings on "talc," etc., with 17 engravings, illustrating costume, vehicles and trades in India
178 items
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
116 items
Farm Security Administration Collection
221 items
Renaissance and medieval manuscripts collection
1,412 items
Album de la construction de la Statue de la Liberté
15 items
Photographs of Ellis Island, 1902-1913
49 items
American popular songs
4,930 items
Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892
627 items
Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
42,205 itemsCollections About New York City See More
Collection of photographs of New York City, New York State and more by Max Hubacher
1,569 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library
34,743 items
Photographic views of New York City, 1870's-1970's, from the collections of the New York Public Library. Supplement.
1,569 items
New York World's Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated records
13,615 itemsNew York City directories
290 items
Trow business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York
2 items
Atlases of New York City
11,829 items
Photographs taken by inspectors of the New York City Tenement House Department
1,102 items
Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City,1860-1942
1,382 items
Doors, NYC
3,122 items
The Eno collection of New York City views
709 items
Changing New York
2,185 items
Collection of photographs of New York City, 1931-1942
335 items
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
669 items
Fifth Avenue, New York, from start to finish
84 items
New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation records
92 items
Street views of New York City
69 items
New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs
133 items
Album of photographs showing construction of the cable road on Broadway, New York City, in 1891
56 items
Photographic views of the construction of the New York City subway system, 1901-1905
31 items
Album of photographs depicting the construction of the Broadway line, New York City Subway
27 items
"Classic Six:" New York City Apartment Building Living, 1880s-1910s
1,444 items
Portraits of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York
14 items
Staten Island post cards
766 items
Collection of photographs of East River and Hudson River piers, Manhattan
99 items
Drugstore Photographs, Or, A Trip Along the Yangtze River, 1999, by Dylan Stone
25,428 items
Collection of photographs of New York City
813 itemsFashion Collections See More
André Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection
1,246 items
Creators Studios fashion illustrations
1,067 items
Ladies' dress shoes of the nineteenth century
24 items
Enter. Wash dress fabrics, MDCCCCIIII.
14 items
Imported French fabrics, E. Meyer & Co., Paris; fall, 1930-1931.
12 items
Newest styles for men
95 itemsCollections for Designers See More
Ornament and Pattern: Pre-Victorian to Art Deco
3,607 items
Pictures of Science: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustration
299 items
Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900
7,956 items
Kaleidoscope: ornements abstraits : quatre-vingt-sept motifs en vingt planches
21 items
Suggestions pour étoffes et tapis : 60 motifs en couleur.
22 items
Collection of book jackets
2,505 items
Holiday postcards
1,860 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Dress & Fashion: Design & Manufacture
566 items
Playing cards: Engineering
52 itemsNature Collections See More
Livre de divers animaux pour dessus de portes par les meilleurs maitres.
12 items
Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life, by Sherman F. Denton
163 items
Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions
499 items
Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum; quales sunt cancri, echini, echinometra, stellae marinae, &c. ut et cochlearum ... quibus accedunt conchylia, ut nautilus, cornu Ammonis, & conchae univalviae et bivalviae ... denique mineralia ...
63 items
Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate la Venus, pendant les annees 1836-1839: publie par ordre du roi, sous les auspices du ministre de la marine
112 items
Wild animals and birds: their haunts and habits
48 items
Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands
74 items
Butterflies of North America
161 items
Cabinet du petit naturaliste, par Mad. D*** ...
14 items
Characteristic sketches of animals, principally from the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park
35 items
Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c., chiefly after the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer, by his brother, Thomas Landseer. Printed from the original plates, pub. between 1823 and 1828
40 items
Exotic moths
34 items
Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America : containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.
118 items
Friends worth knowing; glimpses of American natural history
16 items
Groups of cattle, drawn from nature, by T.S. Cooper. 1839.
33 items
Histoire naturelle des mammiferes, avec des figures originales, coloriees, dessinees d'apres des animaux vivans; publie sous l'autorite de l'administration du Museum d'histoire naturelle, par M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire ... et par M. Frederic Cuvier....
361 items
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers, suivie de celle des toucans et des barbus: par Francois Levaillant....
116 items
Histoire naturelle des poissons
42 items
Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba
181 items
Historiae naturalis de quadrupetibus libri
76 items
Humble creatures; part I. The earthworm, and the common housefly. In eight letters
10 items
Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. I.
29 items
Illuminerade figurer till Skandinaviens fauna
204 items
Illustrations of Indian zoology: chiefly ... from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke ...
210 items
Illustrations of exotic entomology, containing upwards of six hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of foreign insects, interspersed with remarks and reflections on their nature and properties
154 items
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America: Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology, 1...
51 items
Interesting Selections from Animated Nature
122 items
American entomology : or description of the insects of North America, illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature
58 items
American natural history. Part 1.--Mastology
56 items
Animate creation : popular edition of our living world, a natural history
108 itemsGay & Lesbian History See More
Diana Davies photographs
3,849 items
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen gay history papers and photographs
574 items
International Gay Information Center collection. Photographs
252 items
ACT UP New York records
146 items
Gran Fury collection
146 items
Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers by Robert Giard
204 items
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender periodical collection
9 items
Frank Thompson photograph albums
24 itemsAcclaimed Theatrical Photographers See More
Martha Swope photographs
62,759 items
Kenn Duncan Photograph Archive, ca. 1960-1986
7,049 items
Friedman-Abeles photographs: [legacy collection]
41,337 items
Vandamm theatrical photographs, 1900-1957
3,863 items
White Studio theatrical photographs
2,242 itemsPoster Collections See More
Turn of the Century Posters
2,027 items
Posters: arranged by artists
866 items
Magazine posters
275 items
Posters: American book posters
220 items
Posters of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1922
213 items
Newspaper posters
108 items
Collection of Russian and Ukrainian posters, 1917-1921
104 items
Commercial posters
74 items
Posters: exhibition, exposition, calendar
51 items
Posters from the New York Sunday Herald, 1895-1896
39 items
Posters, by Will Bradley
28 items
Magazine posters
19 items
Circus and magic posters
17 items
Billy Rose Theatre Division posters
39 items
Posters for books and magazines
2 items
Broadsides, posters and playbills
1 item
Posters by Jacob Kazaks
1 item
Poster Collection
81 itemsMaps & Atlases See More
Atlases of New York City
11,829 items
Atlases of the United States
3,913 items
Maps of Asia
84 items
Charting America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
3,411 items
Maps of Africa
2 items
Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States
1,832 items
Maps of Europe
49 items![Printed maps of Russia and neighboring lands, including city plans of Saint Petersburg, from the 17th to the early20th century].](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=2003589&t=r)
Printed maps of Russia and neighboring lands, including city plans of Saint Petersburg, from the 17th to the early20th century].
1 item
History of Greece: from the earliest records of that country, to the time in which it was reduced to a Roman province ...
8 items
Maps of South America
4 items
F. W. Putzger's Historischer Schul-Atlas zur alten, mittleren und neuen Geschichte : in 66 Haupt- und 63 Nebenkarten
1 itemBook Art and Illustrations See More
Ehon: the artist and the book in Japan
1,969 items
Books bequeathed by William Augustus Spencer
125 items
Genji Monogatari Emaki
33 items
Collection of book jackets
2,505 items
Sonan gafu = The Sonan album.
32 items
Children's book illustrations
1,987 items
Horae
6 items
Tōkaido gojūsan tsugi no uchi
55 items
Posters: American book posters
220 items
Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
11,629 items
William Blake: Illuminated Books
89 items
Minchô shiken (The Colored Inkstone of the Ming Period)
65 itemsExplore Further
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