Green glass perfume bottle that reads: "TELSSIER PREVOST" / "A. PARIS" written in a triangle on the front. Above, an image of a bell with a ribbon.
1388
1830 - 1950
Width 7.5 cm
Height 18.5 cm
June 1990
Home of the Van Cortlandt family, important in NY society and politics in the 18th and 19th centuries. Once the center of a busy farmstead, the mansion, built in 1748, sits alone in Van Cortlandt Park. Excavations in 1990-92, ...
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8 Objects
Archaeology can reveal very personal information about the lives of the people in the past through the objects that they once used. These artifacts were all found near the Van Cortlandt Manor in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and ...
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