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[Subway Passenger, New York City]

Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
Date: February 23, 1938
Accession Number: 1994.253.513.1
Act VII (Dai nanadanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Sawamura Tanosuke as Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

Utagawa Kuniaki II (Japanese, 1835–1888)
Date: 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month
Accession Number: JP1094d
Limestone head of a girl

Date: 3rd century B.C.
Accession Number: 17.230.55
Picture hat

Date: 1927–28
Accession Number: C.I.57.22.3
Woman of Venice II

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur)
Date: 1956
Accession Number: 1999.363.25
Handle of a bowl

Accession Number: 74.51.5459
Double Cup

Caspar Beutmüller the Elder
Date: 1590–1600
Accession Number: 17.190.609a, b
Andrew Jackson by Hiram Powers, 1837

Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
Date: ca. 1943, printed 1982
Accession Number: 1982.1188.8
Trois Amours dont un tient un couronne (There Loves, one of which is Holding a Crown), from Quatrieme Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (Fourth Book of Groups of Children)

Pierre Alexandre Aveline (French, Paris 1702–1760 Paris)
Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 55.539.13
A Girl with a Pipe

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Date: ca. 1785
Accession Number: JP132
Huntsman's Knife with Sheath

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 91.16.14a, b
Tile with rekhyt bird

Date: ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Accession Number: 17.194.2336
Bottle

Accession Number: 24.80.557
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillelmine Benoist (French, Paris 1768–1826 Paris)
Date: 1802
Accession Number: 53.61.4
Bead shaped like a Coleoptera beetle

Date: ca. 3300–2650 B.C.
Accession Number: 16.7.59b
Evening dress

Date: 1800–1810
Accession Number: 1976.299.1
Spoon

Date: 5th–6th century
Accession Number: 13.42.1b
Evening dress

House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937)
Date: ca. 1965
Accession Number: 1980.392
Hat

June Blaker
Date: late 1970s
Accession Number: 2006.74.8
Piece

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 36.90.2856

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[Subway Passenger, New York City]
Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
Date: February 23, 1938
Accession Number: 1994.253.513.1
Act VII (Dai nanadanme): Actors Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Ōboshi Yuranosuke, Sawamura Tanosuke as Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)
Utagawa Kuniaki II (Japanese, 1835–1888)
Date: 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month
Accession Number: JP1094d
Limestone head of a girl
Date: 3rd century B.C.
Accession Number: 17.230.55
Picture hat
Date: 1927–28
Accession Number: C.I.57.22.3
Woman of Venice II
Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, Borgonovo 1901–1966 Chur)
Date: 1956
Accession Number: 1999.363.25
Handle of a bowl
Accession Number: 74.51.5459
Double Cup
Caspar Beutmüller the Elder
Date: 1590–1600
Accession Number: 17.190.609a, b
Andrew Jackson by Hiram Powers, 1837
Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
Date: ca. 1943, printed 1982
Accession Number: 1982.1188.8
Trois Amours dont un tient un couronne (There Loves, one of which is Holding a Crown), from Quatrieme Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (Fourth Book of Groups of Children)
Pierre Alexandre Aveline (French, Paris 1702–1760 Paris)
Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 55.539.13
A Girl with a Pipe
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Date: ca. 1785
Accession Number: JP132
Huntsman's Knife with Sheath
Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 91.16.14a, b
Tile with rekhyt bird
Date: ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
Accession Number: 17.194.2336
Bottle
Accession Number: 24.80.557
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillelmine Benoist (French, Paris 1768–1826 Paris)
Date: 1802
Accession Number: 53.61.4
Bead shaped like a Coleoptera beetle
Date: ca. 3300–2650 B.C.
Accession Number: 16.7.59b
Evening dress
Date: 1800–1810
Accession Number: 1976.299.1
Spoon
Date: 5th–6th century
Accession Number: 13.42.1b
Evening dress
House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937)
Date: ca. 1965
Accession Number: 1980.392
Hat
June Blaker
Date: late 1970s
Accession Number: 2006.74.8
Piece
Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 36.90.2856