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Title: [Samuel Powel?] Short notes on a course of Antiquities at Rome, In Company with Messrs. Apthorp, [John] Morgan and Palmer..., 1764
Identifier(s): text:324353
Subject: Antiquities, Roman
Date: 1764

Title: Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas
Identifier(s): text:343433
Creator: Dupaix, Guillermoet al
Subject: Archaeology -- Mexico; Aztecs -- Antiquities; Ethnology -- Mexico; Mixtec Indians -- Antiquities; Dupaix, Guillermo
Date: 1805-1807; 2022

Title: Notice sur le Musée des antiques, dessiné et gravé par P. Bouillon, avec des notices explicatives par Mr. de St. Victor./ Prospectus of the Museum of antiquities, designed and engraved by Mr. Bouillon, with explanatory notes by Mr. de St. Victor
Identifier(s): text:308; APSimg6493; Goodman Number: 257; 973 C683 No. 508
Description: Back of one page contains note to [Thomas] Sully written by Lewis D. Belair, February 28, 1818. Note on document indicates that M. L. Binsse of New York was authorized to obtain subscribers to the work at Paris cost.; French and English in double columns.
Creator: Bouillon, Pierre, 1776-1831
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1818

Title: Peintures de vases antiques, vulgairement appelés vases étrusques, tirés de différentes collections
Identifier(s): text:1168; local: APSimg6657; local: 263
Description: Prospectus for work proposed and published by C. M. Dubois- Maisonneuve, illustrated by A. Agne-Clener, and written by Millin. Peintures de vases antiques appeared 1808-1810.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1102, no. 5.
Creator: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis), 1759-1818et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Vases
Date: ca. 1808

Title: Pyramide de Papantla
Identifier(s): graphics:7482; APSdigobj9315
Description: Pencil sketch by an anonymous traveler to Mexico from a manuscript entitled "Pyramide de Paplanta [sic]. Description Ic[o]nografica, de la antigua y famosa Piramide o Adoratorio del Pueblo de Papantla"
Source: Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.N84-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America; Mexico--Antiquities; Pyramids--Mexico; Temples--Mexico
Date: 1785

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, June 5, 1863 [sic; should be 1893].. Karnak. ...Note--the Egyptian exploration fund, since incorporation as a society, in 1883, has given to the world much information relative to a nation whose history dates back to the dawn of civilization
Identifier(s): text:1023; APSimg6656; Goodman Number: 260
Description: After a poem on Egyptian antiquities gives a list of officers of the fund and information on how interested parties may obtain its publications from Charles W. Darling, honorary secretary of the fund.; Item call number: Pam. v. 89, no. 19.
Source: Pamphlet Collection (Pam. v. 89);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Archaeology; Fund raising
Date: [1793]

Title: Antiquités mexicaines. Relation des trois expéditions ordonnées par le Roi d'Espagne en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités antérieures a la découverte du Mexique, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque
Identifier(s): text:370; APSimg6492; Goodman Number: 254; 973 C683 No. 271
Description: Prospectus for a work published in French in 1834. In addition to Barb_re, contributors to the work include: Charles Farcy, [David B.] Warden, and Alexander Lenoir.; See also Goodman #253 for Spanish-language version of this prospectus.
Creator: Baradère, H. (Henri)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Expeditions & surveys
Date: ca. 1833

Title: Antiguedades Mejicanas. Relacion de las tres expediciones hechas por mando del Rey de España en 1805, 1806, y 1807, con el objeto de investigar las antiguedades anteriores al descubrimiento de Mejico
Identifier(s): text:1120; local: APSimg6654; local: 253
Description: Prospectus for a work published in French in 1834. In addition to Baradère, contributors to the work include: Charles Farcy, [David B.] Warden, and Alexander Lenoir. For French-language version of this same prospectus see Goodman #254 (973 C683, no. 271).; Item call number: Pam. v. 455, no. 10. Copies of the broadside are also available at: Pam. v. 454, no. 8; 500 Pam. v. 3, no. 27.
Creator: Baradère, H. (Henri)et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Expeditions & surveys
Date: ca. 1833

Title: Notice sur la belle copie en marbre blanc du zodiaque circulaire de Denderah
Identifier(s): text:602; APSimg6613; Goodman Number: 262
Description: Offers for sale a marble copy of the zodiac from the Temple of Denderah executed by J.-J. Castex. The original, found during the French expedition to Egypt at the turn of the eighteenth century, was considered as "un des monumens les plus précieux des connaissances astronomiques des Egyptiens."
Creator: Michaux, André, 1746-1802
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Temples; Zodiac
Date: ca. 1819

Title: Proposals for printing, by subscription, An Historical and philosophical inquiry into the original [sic], nature, and design of various remains of antiquity, which have been discovered in America
Identifier(s): text:692; APSimg6566; Goodman Number: 255
Description: Originally enclosed with letter from B. S. Barton to Thomas Pennant, August 30, 1790. This work, like several others proposed by Barton, was apparently never published.
Creator: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Indians of North America
Date: 1789

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]

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: Pilier à Teotihuacan
Identifier(s): graphics:3916; APSimg5263
Description: Black and white image of a stone pillar from Teotihuacan.; Image 76. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Columns; Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs
Date: 1880

Title: (From the Utica Morning Herald, April 13, 1892). Oneida Historical Society. Business session held yesterday afternoon--a paper by General C. W. Darling on "Pre-historic archaeology of America" read last evening
Identifier(s): text:1020; APSimg6623; Goodman Number: 44
Description: Document summarizing the proceedings of a meeting of the Oneida Historical Society. Appears to be an offprint from the Utica Morning Herald. The Oneida Historical Society was founded in 1876 and continues to exist today.; Item call number: Pam. v. 89, no. 28.
Creator: Oneida Historical Society at Utica
Source: Pamphlet Collection (Pam. v. 89);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Historical societies; Archaeological sites; Antiquities
Date: 1892

Title: Mexican Calendars compared one with another, and made to agree with ours; with the accompañados, or Lords of the night, and the signs and Planes which governed in the Trecenas
Identifier(s): text:159756
Description: Page found in "An historical and chronological description of two stones found under ground, in the great square of the City of Mexico, in the years 1790"
Subject: León y Gama, Antonio de, 1735-1802; Hulings, William Empson; Mexico--Antiquities
Date: 1790

Title: Through the Looking Glass: The Future of Collecting Antiquities
Identifier(s): video:1607
Description: PMA Director Timothy Rub discusses the future of collecting antiquities. How do care for and build ethically collected items?
Subject: Collecting; Cultural property, Italy; Antiquities, Collectors and collecting; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-11-7

Title: Cariatide Tolteque à Tula
Identifier(s): graphics:3984; APSimg5280
Description: Black and white image of a man posing alongside a Tolteque statue at Tula.; Image 93. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs; Sculpture
Date: 1880

Title: Statue gigantesque à Teotihuacan
Identifier(s): graphics:3951; APSimg5253
Description: Black and white image of a man posing with a large statue at Teotihuacan.; Image 65. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Mexico--Antiquities--Photographs; Sculpture
Date: 1880

Title: M. Troyon informé, pendant son dernier séjour à Paris, que de fausses accusations portées sur son compte, par M. Adolphe Morlot, de Berne, ont été reproduites dans la Société impérial des Antiquaires de France et colportées dans plusieurs pays, croit devoir livrer à la publicité la lettre ci-après adressée le 28 août 1862
Identifier(s): text:533; APSimg6666; Goodman Number: 266
Description: Reproduces letter by J. Gay, vice president of the Commission des musées du canton de Vaud, in which Gay points out the falseness of several unnamed accusations made by Morlot regarding a recent excavation undertaken by Troyon.; Item call number: 571 P19, no. 7.
Creator: Troyon, Frédéric, 1815-1866
Source: Pamphlets relating to prehistoric archaeology (571 P19);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeological sites; Archaeology
Date: 1862