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Title: Lecture on the mound builders[.] No subject more fascinating than the study of the lost race of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. ...Lecture fully illustrated by the stereopticon, charts, and actual specimens
Identifier(s): text:318; APSimg6547; Goodman Number: 261; 973 C683 No. 526
Description: Broadside advertising a lecture on the mounds and archaeological remains left by Native Americans who once inhabited the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.
Creator: MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson), 1848-1939
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Mounds (Burials); Public speaking
Date: [1886]

Title: The Franklin lifesaving and Arctic exploring expedition. The brilliant effort now making by Henry Grinnell...for the early departure of an expedition which he is fitting out for the Polar Seas, from his own private fortune, for the search and rescue of those who embarked in the exploring expedition which sailed from England under the command of Sir John Franklin, is worthy of every aid and facility which can be extended to so noble and praiseworthy an undertaking
Identifier(s): text:855; APSimg6722; Goodman Number: 318
Description: From the New York Municipal Gazette Extra. The first Grinnell expedition, financed by the New York merchant and philanthropist, Henry Grinnell, was commanded by Lt. Edwin J. DeHaven and included among its crew Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, who would later lead the second Grinnell expedition in search of Franklin.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Meriam, Ebenezer, 1794-1864
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Grinnell Expedition; Arctic regions; Climate; Weather; Weather
Date: 1850

Title: [Ticket for] admittance to lectures on mineralogy, by S. Godon
Identifier(s): text:709; APSimg6574; Goodman Number: 150
Description: Ticket for lecture on mineralogy. Manuscript notation on ticket indicates that it was issued to Benjamin Smith Barton in 1809.
Creator: Godon, S[ilvain] (ca. 1774-1840)
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: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Geology and Mineralogy; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Minerals; Public speaking; Geology
Date: ca. 1809

Title: Peale's Museum, in the State House, Philadelphia. Admittance 25 cents.
Identifier(s): text:701; APSimg6581; Goodman Number: 72
Description: Broadside describing the layout of Peale's Museum and the collections, animals, and specimens within.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Galleries & museums
Date: 1813

Title: H. M. S. _____ __th of _____ 18__ Lat. _____ Long._____ _____ Commander...Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the time and place at which it was found
Identifier(s): text:839; APSimg6709; Goodman Number: 321
Description: Identical text in six different languages: English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch and Russian. From the papers of John K. Kane, father of Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Great Britain. Admiralty
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Grinnell Expedition; Discovery & exploration; Arctic regions
Date: 18__

Title: Proposals for printing by subscription, on a fine paper, with a new and elegant American letter, cast by John Baine & Co. Travels through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida.... By William Bartram, botanist, of Philadelphia, who was employed from 1773 to 1777, by the celebrated Doctor Fothergill, of London, to explore the extensive countries above-mentioned.
Identifier(s): text:1764; APSimg6507; Goodman Number: 316; 973 C683 No. 122
Description: Includes extract of Travels describing the Alachua Savannah in East Florida. See also Goodman #315.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Natural history; Discovery & exploration; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Date: ca. 1790

Title: A catalogue of botanical, gardening, & agricultural books for sale by Bernard M'Mahon, seedsman, no. 129, Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia
Identifier(s): text:710; APSimg6568; Goodman Number: 196
Description: M'Mahon, author of American gardener's calendar which was republished in eleven editions, was entrusted by Thomas Jefferson with the seeds brought back from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.; A fragment, equaling approximately one-half of the original broadside.
Creator: M’Mahon, Bernard, 1775?-1816
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Bookselling; Botany; Horticulture
Date: n.d.

Title: Aston Abbotts House, Aylesbury. 18th February, 1853. Sir, With respect to the number of each party, we have found two officers and six men to be the most convenient
Identifier(s): text:837; APSimg6719; Goodman Number: 331
Description: Recommendations by Ross for outfitting the Kane Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, including suggestions for: fuel, dwellings, protection of the feet, and optimal date for travel. Sent to Rear Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, K.B.C. Other letters solicited by the British Admiralty to aid Kane in his expedition include Goodman #329-330, and 332.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Grinnell Expedition; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration
Date: 1853

Title: Philadelphia, _____ 18__. Sir, It is in conformity with the directions of the Philadelphia Linnean Society, and in their behalf, that we have now the honor of addressing you
Identifier(s): text:711; APSimg6565; Goodman Number: 49
Description: Circular letter, sent to Benjamin Smith Barton on May 18, 1809, requesting the receiver to communicate the results of their natural history observations to the society. Indicates that the society is especially interested in specimens of plants and minerals. Autograph signatures of Sam[uel] Hazard, Sam[uel] Belton, and Sam[ue]l Colhoun, members of the correspondence committee of the Philadelphia Linnean Society.
Creator: Philadelphia Linnean Society
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: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Linnean Society of Philadelphia; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; Specimens
Date: ca. 1809

Title: Proposals, for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo; Travels, through North and South-Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Identifier(s): text:779; APSimg6689; Goodman Number: 315
Description: Prospectus for Bartram's Travels originally enclosed in a letter from Enoch Story, Jr. to Benjamin Franklin in which the Philadelphia printer sought permission to dedicate the volume to the venerable Franklin and requested that he use his influence to see that the work "not perish for want of encouragement" (see F:85:vol.41:no.201). Though Story did not come to publish Travels, the work did appear five years later from the presses of James and Johnson (see Goodman #316).; Hays reference #: Vol. 76, no. 36. Oversized.
Creator: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Bartram, William, 1739-1823; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Discovery & exploration; Natural history; Indians of North America
Date: 1786

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on botany. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany
Identifier(s): text:706; APSimg6570; Goodman Number: 187
Description: Admission ticket for lecture. One copy is filled in with the date April 25, 1800. Both are initialed by Barton. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; See also Goodman #188 and #188a.
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany; Public speaking
Date: ca. 1800

Title: The names and births of the children of John and Ann Bartram, viz.
Identifier(s): text:243; APSimg6471; Goodman Number: 200; 973 C683 No. 736
Description: Lists the ten children of this famed American botanist-explorer and nurseryman, at least two of whom followed their father in choice of vocation.; Clipping
Creator: Philadelphia County (Pa.). Kingsess Township
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Bartram, William, 1739-1823
Date: n.d.

Title: Behold here the first man who hath squared the circles of 140000 solar and St. John's 144000 lunar years. One is a square to that whose sextant 25920 answers to the modern Hindus' 24000, the sixth of 360 x 400
Identifier(s): text:305; APSimg6559; Goodman Number: 339; 973 C683 No. 313
Description: Broadside from itinerant mystic-numerologist among whose claims was that "Halley's comet will then appear to announce that 1836 is the day of judgment." Includes illustrations of the front and side views of Page.
Creator: Page, Edward Postlethwayt, 1782-1857
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision: ; End of the world; Numerals; Page, Edward Postlethwayt, 1782-1857; Pseudo science
Date: [1834]

Title: Northbrook House, Bishop's Waltham, Feb. 16th, 1853. Sir, In reply to your letter of the llth Inst. (receive only to day, I hasten to assure you how much pleasure it would afford me to contribute, in any degree, to the efficiency of Dr. Kane's equipment in the arduous enterprize in which he is about to be engaged.
Identifier(s): text:857; APSimg6717; Goodman Number: 329
Description: Gives recommendations on the selection and construction of sledges for the Arctic exploration about to be undertaken by Elisha Kent Kane in search for Sir John Franklin. Sent to Rear Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. For other letters apparently solicited by the British Admiralty on behalf of Kane see Goodman #330-332.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855
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: Exploration and Travel; Broadside Subdivision: ; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Grinnell Expedition; Arctic regions; Discovery & exploration; Sleds & sleighs
Date: 1853

Title: A descriptive catalogue of Mr. Peale's exhibition of perspective views, with changeable effects; or, Nature delineated, and in motion. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street
Identifier(s): text:333; APSimg6522; Goodman Number: 68; 973 C683 No. 16
Description: Charles Willson Peale's famed Philadelphia museum began in his home as a portrait gallery which was soon augmented with a hall of "moving pictures with changeable effects" advertised in the above broadside. Only one year after it was issued Peale began publicly advertising that a portion of his house would henceforth become a "repository for natural curiosities." 2 copies.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Date: 1785

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on botany. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany
Identifier(s): text:708; APSimg6571; Goodman Number: 188
Description: Admission ticket for lecture. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; See also Goodman #187 and #188a.
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany; Public speaking
Date: 181_

Title: University of Pennsylvania. A course of lectures on botany. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., professor of materia medica, natural history, and botany
Identifier(s): text:707; APSimg6572; Goodman Number: 188a
Description: Admission ticket for lecture filled in for April 22nd, 1806 and initialed by Barton. Immediately after returning from medical studies abroad in 1789, Barton became professor of natural history and botany at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1795 also assumed the responsibilities of the materia medica chair.; See also Goodman #187 and #188.
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: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Botany; Public speaking
Date: 1806

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: 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