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Pair of terra-cotta urns in the Renaissance revival style, the handles in the form of cherubic grotesque figures with arms crossed over chest, the body of the urns ornamented with floral swags and fleur-de-lis cartouches

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Pair of terra-cotta lidded urns, the octagonal body of each urn ornamented with foliate motifs, the handles in the form of dragons, their open mouths grasping the lid of each urn, the lid with foliate terminal

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Pair of stoneware roundels representing Day and Night

Pair of small, cast-iron occasional chairs, listed in 19th century trade catalogues as “hall chairs,” the backs of balloon form, with three-legged base and triangular stretcher

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Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies shallow and semi-lobed, with fluted, ringed, and tapered socles and unusual wavy rims

Pair of cast-iron, campana-form urns, the bodies semi-lobed with foliated handles, the scalloped rims with modified egg-and-dart motif, on ringed, tapered socles and integral square bases, marked “Wood & Perot Philadelphia."

One of the more than 350,000 women who joined the war effort as mechanics,. industrial workers, truck drivers, pilots, and other facets of the home front

Omphalina epichysium

1. Pileus fleshy, thin, umbilicate, light greyish / tan, margin very thin involute striatulate brownish [sic] / minutely squamulose, hygrophorous- [sic] / 2. Lamellae light grey, decurrant, [sic] distant / inserted / 3. Spores white / 4. Stipe…

Omphalia or Hygrophorous

Growing in leaf mold in light woods- / gregarious / 1. Taste watery. / 2. Surface of Pileus, viscid smooth dull- / ranging from a light yellow to a deep orange / brown. / 3. Lamellae- Pure white, Heterophyllous, wide. / rather far apart, decurrent- /…

Obituary of Mrs. Sylvina Van Benthuysen

newspaper print and handwriting

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Tracing of a 1747 Map of Barent Van Benthuysen land

A tracing of a 1747 Map showing the land holdings of Barent Van Benthuysen