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Title: To the citizen[s] of the United States of America. Mr. Peale respectfully informs the public, that having formed a design to establish a museum, for a collection, arrangement and preservation of the objects of natural history and things useful and curious.... Philadelphia, February 1, 1790.
Identifier(s): text:1434; local: APSimg6416; local: 69
Description: Requests donation of specimens. Upper left and right-hand corners of broadsides missing. Signed in type by Charles Willson Peale.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 158; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Natural history; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1790

Title: A table of French verbs...inscib'd to the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:314; local: APSimg6741; local: 269
Description: Extra oversized table of the conjugation of French verbs in various tenses, with models for regular and irregular verbs. Includes illustration: wood cut of ship approaching shore inscribed "they steer to Liberty's shores."
Creator: Carré, C. (Charles)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 37; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Language; Grammar; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French--Dictionaries--French; French language--Grammar; Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1780

Title: To the Manufacturers and Mechanics of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties, and District of Southwark; No. 878 To the Manufacturers and Mechanics of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties, and District of Southwark
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:798
Description: Announcement of a meeting to be held on 9 June to consider a letter from the mechanics of New York and also to adopt measures to unite them and to "animate and administer relief and solid comfort to our brave suffering countrymen in the besieged capital of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY."; Printed; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Economy; Broadside; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Economic aspects; Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Date: 1774-06-08; 2021