The Object Images series includes photographs of objects, primarily from N-YHS's museum collection, though items from the prints and manuscript collections are also included. The bulk of the photographs include only one particular object, but some photographs include multiple objects or N-YHS staff and others displaying, demonstrating or otherwise interacting with an object. Many of the objects are unidentified and the photographs undated.
Many of the photographs are of objects not from N-YHS's collections, and these were likely used in exhibition or other research, such as found in the set of folders with New York City views. Also along these lines are a number of photographs taken in 1949 of the Prentis Murphy home in Connecticut that show the New England furnishings that would be installed at N-YHS in 1951.
