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Explore New York City’s past through the archives, artifacts, and photographs of the South Street Seaport Museum.

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Architectural Elements

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Drawings and Watercolors

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Manuscripts and Ephemera

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Navigational Instruments and Shipwright Tools

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Objects Around the Neighborhood

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Painting depicting a sailing ship in a storm

Paintings

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Photographs

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Prints and Lithographs

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Printing History

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Whale Teeth Pair

Scrimshaw

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Ship Components

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Detail of an ocean liner ship model

Ship Models

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Special Collections

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Tattoo Collection

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Remains of the Old Hotels in Schermerhorn Row

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Institutional Archives

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Aerial view of East River docks in Lower Manhattan, July 29, 1924

Maritime Reference Library

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