Collection Spotlights

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Brass Pantograph Signed by G. Davis of Leeds

Pantographs

Parallel rule and t-square. It has a wooden handle attached to a wooden crossbar and brass protractor by a large brass thumbscrew

Parallel Rules

Patent model for inking apparatus. A wooden circle with the inventor's name written on it. To the right of the circle is a wooden square.

Patent Models: Graphic Arts

Patent model of a sewing machine. Body of the machine is black with gold trim. On the right are three gears, on the left is the needle

Patent Models: Textile and Sewing Machines

Poster for The New Thing Jazz Workshop featuring the Paul Hawkins Latin Sextet

Paul Hawkins

pencils

Pencil to Paper

yellow notepad and attached pencil

Pens and Pencils

Phyllis Diller Live from Los Angeles

Phyllis Diller: Life and Laughs

Daguerreotype of mother and child.

Picturing Motherhood: A Visual Tribute to Maternal Connections

painting of Manhattan skyline

Picturing New York City in Art and Photography

Between Le Charmel and Jaulgonne by Harvey Dunn

Picturing World War I: America's First Official War Artists, 1918-1919

Painting showing soldiers on the front line.

Picturing the First World War

A planimeter drawing a curved shape. An axle with two wheels is connected to a silver ten inch tracer arm

Planimeters

branch with pink flowers

Plant Collections

Elton John playing the piano

Playing the Piano

spirograph

Playtime: Toys, Games, and Puzzles

A collection of political novelties from presidential campaigns

Political Novelties

A bathtub on a painted wooden stand

Portable Bathtubs: Tub Bathing from the Early 19th and 20th Centuries

prehistoric collection thumbnail

Prehistoric Artifacts

Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium

Preserving Baseball History: Art, Artifacts, and Memorabilia

Abraham Lincoln Volk Life Mask

Presidential Portraits

Prince's tambourine

Prince Rogers Nelson: Funk, Fashion, and Freedom

Engraved wood block depicting a pigeon sitting on a branch

Printing Matrices for "Narrative of the U.S. Exploring Expedition"

Small, cylindrical handheld press with a wooden handle.

Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection

Image of Packard Merlin V-1650-7 engine

Propulsion

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