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Heavy duty grading or grubbing hoe with initials JRD (John Ross Delafield) burned into handle

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In the 1920s, Violetta and John Ross Delafield (a Livingston descendant) inherited Montgomery Place. The Delafields made extensive changes to the landscape.

Heavy duty grading or grubbing hoe with initials JRD (John Ross Delafield) burned into handle

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In the 1920s, Violetta and John Ross Delafield (a Livingston descendant) inherited Montgomery Place. The Delafields made extensive changes to the landscape.

Hebeloma or Inocybe pyriodorous?

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Growing in leaf mold in light woods- / July 11- 1900- Litchfield Conn- / 1. Taste- nutty, sweet. / 2. Surface of Pileus, Smooth, dry- firm. / slightly shiny- pealing- [sic] / 3. Lamellae- Heterophyllous- free- close- / fairly wide- a beautiful…

Helvella elastica

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Watercolor drawing on paper of two fungi in shades of smoky brown, grey, and white, accompanied by text, in pencil, to the right: specimen to the right measures 4 3/4 inches in height and has a lobed or saddle-shaped cap with inrolled margins; the…

Henry Elting's rye fields grain in shock

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Stacks (shocks) of rye are standing in a farm field near Pitcher Lane in Upper Red Hook, circa 1905.

Hirsch and Rogo at Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza

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Fold-out photograph of Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo. Features the couple posing at the Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Hirsch sits atop the Chak Mol while Elsa poses in the mouth of the Serpent Columns. The site was first…

Honorary Member Amendment

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Honorary Member Amendment

Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Exchange of Produce for Goods, 1870

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Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 13. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "1870-- The weekly Saturday trip to exchange farm produce for town goods passes Israel Carter's Sharp Tool Factory. John Greene Briggs and Isabel GIbbs DeGroff ride on…