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Title: Indian antiquities. A course of popular and highly interesting lectures on American archeology will be delivered by Prof. M. W. Dickeson, M.D., illustrated by diagrams, paintings, and upwards of ten thousand specimens of American antiquities, collected by him during a period of twelve years research in the valley of the Mississippi
Identifier(s): text:1785; APSimg6545; Goodman Number: 258; 973 C683 No. 61
Description: Advertises a series of lectures to be given under the auspices of the Jefferson Institute by M. W. Dickeson, archeologist and one-time Philadelphia physician, who spent twelve years in the southern Mississippi valley drawing and excavating mounds which had been erected there by the aboriginal populations. Includes illustrations of Indian artifacts and "Selterstown Mound." Signed in type by Daniel L. Leeds, J. Clement Remington, and John Woolman, members of the committee on lectures.
Creator: Dickeson, Montroville Wilson
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Public speaking
Date: [1851]

Title: Monumental grandeur of the Mississippi valley! Now exhibiting for a short time only, _____ with scientific lectures on American Aerchiology [sic]. ...This gorgeous panorama, with all the aboriginal monuments of a large extent of country once roamed by the red man, was painted by the eminent artist I. J. Egan
Identifier(s): text:1777; APSimg6546; Goodman Number: 259; 973 C683 No. 437
Description: Less than one year after Broadside #61 was issued (Goodman #258), Dickeson had collaborated with the artist J. J. (sometimes given as I. J.) Egan to produce a panorama eight feet high and 320 feet long based on his sketches. That panorama, one of the few surviving examples of this once popular form of amusement and instruction, is now kept by the City Art Museum of St. Louis.
Creator: Dickeson, Montroville Wilson
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Public speaking; Panoramic views
Date: [ca. 1851]