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Title: The American Philosophical Society...requests the honor of Mr. _____ company at the St. George Hotel on Monday, March 15 1880 at 5 p.m. at a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the society
Identifier(s): text:75; APSimg6392; Goodman Number: 19; 973 C683 No. 614
Description: Invitation to a dinner to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the American Philosophical Society. Signed in type by William A. Ingham, J. Sergeant Price and Henry Phillips, Jr.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Invitations; Organizations
Date: 1880

Title: A catalogue of books written by Dr. Joseph Priestley
Identifier(s): text:297; APSimg6529; Goodman Number: 128; 973 C683 No. 21
Description: In addition to listing 108 works authored by Priestley, this broadside also advertises that the autobiographical Memoirs of Doctor Joseph Priestley to the year 1795 (with a continuation to the time of his death by his son) is in the press, as well as Observations on his life by Thomas Cooper and William Christie. The two works were published by Binns as a single volume in 1806.; Oversized. One of the three copies of this broadside is annotated with the publication dates of Priestley's works.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Chemistry; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Chemistry; Liberty; Religion
Date: ca. 1806

Title: Proxy. I hereby constitute _____ to be my attorney, to deliberate and vote for me at a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.... September _____, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:146; APSimg6418; Goodman Number: 74; 973 C683 No. 603
Description: A blank legal form for creating a proxy for a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Meetings; Voting; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1836

Title: Phrenological developements [sic] of _____
Identifier(s): text:361; APSimg6533; Goodman Number: 283; 973 C683 No. 738
Description: Phrenological chart listing feelings or affective faculties and intellectual faculties.; Name of subject redacted for digital version.
Creator: Parnell, B. A.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Phrenology; Phrenology
Date: n.d.

Title: History of the Indian tribes of North America. With biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with 120 portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War at Washington.
Identifier(s): text:380; APSimg6501; Goodman Number: 292; 973 C683 No. 399
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1838-44. Includes recommendation from Jared Sparks. McKenney was an administrator of Indian affairs for the United States government. Hall was a lawyer, banker, and author who wrote primarily of pioneer life in Illinois and the Ohio Valley.
Creator: McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868; McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Indians of North America; Tribal chiefs
Date: 1830

Title: An unlimited daily calendar; serving for every year, before and after the Christian era, both for the old and new styles
Identifier(s): text:1762; APSimg6505; Goodman Number: 302; 973 C683 No. 488
Description: Paper instrument with sliding rectangular sheet.
Creator: Garnett, J.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Calendars
Date: n.d.

Title: Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand, revived and improved by S. Polito, the first emporium of living curiosities in the known world; is now classically divided into three different apartments, in a most substantial, clean, and beautiful order
Identifier(s): text:350; APSimg6524; Goodman Number: 75; 973 C683 No. 742
Description: Begun by Gilbert Pidcock in the last decades of the eighteenth century, the Royal Menagerie at Exeter Change was purchased in 1810 by S. Polito, an experienced traveling menagerist. Both Pidcock and his successor successfully promoted their enterprise through enthusiastic advertising in the form of newspaper ads, handbills, and broadsides such as the one above.
Creator: Royal Menagerie, London
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Zoos
Date: 1816

Title: Academia Scientiarium Imperialis L: S: Academiam Petri Magni auspiciis.... Datum ex Academia Scientiarum M: Januar: D: 14 A: 1726. [Saint Petersburg]: Typis mandatum Typographia Petropolitana
Identifier(s): text:65; APSimg6387; Goodman Number: 2; 973 C683 No. 531
Description: Announcement in Latin of the first series of lectures to be given at the college of the academy by the following: Daniel Bernoulli, Theophilus Sigefrid Bayer, Nicolaus Bernoulli, Christianus Martini, J. C. Buxbaum, Jacobus Hermannus, J. Peter Kohl, J. Simon Beckenstein, Michael Burger, Johannes Georgius Du Vernoy, Georgius Bernhardus Bulffinger, C. F. Gross, F. C. Majer, and Joseph-Nicolaus Delilse. Also gives instructors in the gymansium.
Creator: Académie impériale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Announcements; Public speaking; Natural history
Date: 1726

Title: Les chaires à l'Université Impériale de Vilna que l'assemblée générale de professeurs tenue le 18. julliet 1803 a declarées vacantes pour ètre publiées, sont...
Identifier(s): text:154; APSimg6422; Goodman Number: 85; 973 C683 No. 282
Description: Advertises vacancies in physics, natural history, agriculture, mathematics, clinical medicine, and veterinary medicine.
Creator: Université Impériale de Vilna
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Education; Science; Universities & colleges
Date: 1803

Title: Sujets de prix, proposés par l'Académie...pour l'année 1782.... [Page 2:] Pour l'année 1783. ...A Lyon, le 5 septembre 1780
Identifier(s): text:63; APSimg6386; Goodman Number: 1; 973 C683 No. 207
Description: Gives details of two prizes proposed and funded by Abbé Guillame-Thomas-François Raynal. The first, to be awarded in 1782, offers 600 livres for the best entry relating to the prosperity of manufacturing in Lyon. The second, to be awarded in 1783,offers 1200 livres for the best entry discussing the beneficial and detrimental effects of the discovery of America. Signed in type by [Marc-Antoine-Louis Claret de Fleurieu de] La Tourrette, perpetual secretary of the academy.
Creator: Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Awards; Organizations; Discovery & exploration; Industry
Date: 1780

Title: A living whale! And monstrous living crocodile. In a communication to the Boston Journal, Professor Agassiz gives the following description of the white whale.... [Page 2:] Catalogue. ...Boston, June 3, 1861.
Identifier(s): text:135; APSimg6414; Goodman Number: 65; 973 C683 No. 706
Description: Reprints a letter describing a specimen of white whale by Louis Agassiz which was originally printed in the Boston Journal. Issued only one year after broadside #480, Cutting and Butler had increased the size of their establishment to include 47 tanks of fish and other aquatic animals and 17 cages of terrestrial animals.
Creator: Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Aquariums; Zoos; Whales
Date: 1861

Title: A new astronomical instrument. Shewing the day of the month, change and age of the moon, the places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic, with the times of the rising, southing and setting of the sun, moon, and stars of the first, second, and third magnitude, from A.D. 1756 to 1805 inclusive
Identifier(s): text:1756; APSimg6705; Goodman Number: 301; 973 C683 No. 440
Description: Paper astronomical instrument composed of moveable concentric circles imprinted with various scales for ascertaining the day of the month, change and age of the moon, the places of the sun and moon in the ecliptic, etc. Illustrated: outlines of the various constellations contained in the innermost circle.
Creator: Ferguson, James, 1710-1776
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Scientific Instruments; Broadside Subdivision: ; Astronomical instruments; Stargazing; Almanacs
Date: 1757

Title: M'Carty & Davis,...Philadelphia, propose publishing by subscription, an original work, entitled, A narrative of the mission of the United Brethen, amongst the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, from its commencement, in the year 1740, to its close, in the year 1808
Identifier(s): text:1753; APSimg6498; Goodman Number: 289; 973 C683 No. 485
Description: Includes recommendation by Peter S. Du Ponceau and Roberts Vaux indicating that the work is "replete with valuable information respecting the Indians; their history, manners, customs." Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary who after withdrawing from active mission work among the Indians of Ohio was pursuaded by Caspar Wistar to record some of the knowledge he had acquired.
Creator: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Missions; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Date: 1819

Title: Tableau du Cercle des Philadelphes, Établi au Cap-François avec l'approbation du Roi, le 15 août 1784
Identifier(s): text:117; APSimg6406; Goodman Number: 26; 973 C683 No. 190
Description: Lists the 89 members of this short-lived scientific society and classifies them according to the various membership categories. Among the members given are two Americans, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
Creator: Cercle des Philadelphes
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations
Date: 1787

Title: A los folk-loristas de todas las naciones[,] el crucero Iberia
Identifier(s): text:378; APSimg6500; Goodman Number: 291; 973 C683 No. 420
Description: Prospectus for a periodical publication.
Creator: Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio; Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio; Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893 Guichot y Sierra, Alejandro, 1859-1941 Sendras y Burin, Antonio
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Folklorists
Date: ca. 1885

Title: Animal magnetism, clairvoyance, sympathy, phreno-magnetism, &c. &c. Dr. Webster takes pleasure in announcing to the citizens of _____ and vicinity, that he will deliver a course of lectures, illustrated by experiments, on the important, sublime and mysterious subject of Mesmerism
Identifier(s): text:1748; APSimg6560; Goodman Number: 341; 973 C683 No. 739
Description: Advertisement for a demonstration of Dr. Webster's claims, together with testimonials on his behalf.
Creator: Webster, J. Palmer
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; Pseudo science; Hypnotism; Mesmerism
Date: ca. 1845

Title: Circular. Providence, R. I.[,] Nov. 1, 1830. At an adjourned meeting of the board of trustees of the Rhode-Island Historical Society, holden [sic] October 25, 1830, the subject of the early history of our country being under consideration, and the board being deeply impressed with the importance of procuring every authentic paper and document relative thereto, that it is in our power to obtain...
Identifier(s): text:1307; APSimg6398; Goodman Number: 52; 973 C683 No. 619
Description: An attempt to gather support for the passage of an act in Congress which would authorize the U. S. Government to obtain records relating to the early settlement of America in the possession of the British government. Signed in type by Usher Parsons, W. R. Staples, and Thomas H. Webb, members of the library committee of the society.
Creator: Rhode Island Historical Society
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Circulars; Records (Information); Colonies
Date: 1830

Title: Panorama! Will be exhibited at the Eagle Hotel...every evening, at half-past 7 o'clock.... This interesting scenery consists of diagrams mathematically drawn from actual survey of the various forms and relative position of fifty-two distinct arrangements of conical mounds, earthen effigies, and Herculean embankments, interspersed...from Brown's Ville, Pa., to the spurs of the Rocky Mountains
Identifier(s): text:1755; APSimg6548; Goodman Number: 264; 973 C683 No. 326
Description: Unlike Dickeson's panorama (Broadside #437), this one is advertised as primarily based on the Indians of the northern Mississippi valley. The anonymous lecturer claims to have lived with North-Western Indians for four years.
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. 1855]

Title: From the meteorological observations at Gloster Place, two miles south of Natchez. ...Mean temperature of each and every month in the year, and of every year from 1810 to 1818
Identifier(s): text:259; APSimg6468; Goodman Number: 175; 973 C683 No. 305
Description: Signed by Winthrop Sergeant
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Meteorology; Rain; Temperature
Date: [ca. 1819]

Title: Sir William Jones
Identifier(s): text:358; APSimg6495; Goodman Number: 279; 973 C683 No. 301
Description: Biographical sketch of this famed Oriental scholar. Includes an illustration.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794; Linguistics
Date: n.d.