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Title: Valuable real estate. Philadelphia Museum. Peremptory sale
Identifier(s): text:845; APSimg6707; Goodman Number: 79
Description: Faced with severe financial difficulties, the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Museum (more popularly known as Peale's Museum) was forced to sell the building it had erected in 1838 (see Goodman #73: 973 C683, no. 95). On August 5, 1841, Robert Patterson, acting on behalf of the American Philosophical Society, tendered the winning bid for the structure, the society having decided to sell its Philosophical Hall on Independence Square to the city of Philadelphia and move to the relatively new building which had been constructed for the Philadlephia Museum. Negotiations with the city fell through, however, and the Philadelphia Museum was given a temporary reprieve from its financial obligations, while the American Philosophical Society was forced to remain in its original home.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
Source: Elisha Kent Kane Papers. Printed Material. (Mss.B.K132.p); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.K132.p-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; American Philosophical Society; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Auctions
Date: 1841

Title: [Fragment missing] and real estate. C. J. Wolbert & Co. invite attention to their sale which will take place on Thursday evening next[,] the 5th August, 1841
Identifier(s): text:130; APSimg6419; Goodman Number: 80; 973 C683 No. 187
Description: Advertisement for an auction. Item number seven to be auctioned is the Philadelphia Museum (see also Goodman #79).
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Auctions; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1841