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Title: New-Brunswick has been visited by a frightful tornado. ...Charged with that mournful duty by their fellow citizens, the undersigned have made a survey of the devastation, and ascertained, as nearly as practicable, the amount of the positive and direct damage sustained.
Identifier(s): text:1486; APSimg6467; Goodman Number: 166; 973 C683 No. 181
Description: Requests pecuniary aid for the victims of this tornado which completely destroyed 130 homes and damaged numerous others. Signed in type by J. J. Janeway, G. S. Webb, F. Richmond, D. Fitz Randolph, and Miles C. Smith. The APS Archives also contain a report of this tornado made by J. J. Janeway, April 23, 1835.
Creator: Janeway, J. J. (Jacob Jones), 1774-1858
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Physical Science; Broadside Subdivision: Meteorology; Tornadoes; Fund raising
Date: 1835

Title: Circular. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dear Sir:-- At a late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Cambridge, Mass., the standing committee was directed, by a general vote of that body, to contract for the publication of the proceedings of the meeting. ...Cambridge, October 5, 1849
Identifier(s): text:1766; APSimg6401; Goodman Number: 4; 973 C683 No. 297
Description: Signed in type by Jeffries Wyman, Louis Agassiz, Benjamin Peirce, Charles H. Davis, Asa Gray, Henry D. Rogers, and E. N. Horsford, members of the committee requested to oversee publication of the proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Creator: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Organizations; Science; Fund raising
Date: 1849

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: Circular. The trustees of the Philadelphia Museum avail themselves of the occasion of a change of their location, which the intended sale of the arcade renders inevitable
Identifier(s): text:139; APSimg6417; Goodman Number: 73; 973 C683 No. 95
Description: Attempt by the trustees of the museum to raise money for the erection of a new building to house Peale's Museum. Faced with recurring financial difficulties, the museum had been formerly incorporated in 1821 under the name of the Philadelphia Museum Company. The new building referred to in the broadside was finally erected in 1838.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Fund raising
Date: ca. 1835

Title: Circular. At a meeting of the aid committee of the trustees of the fund for a fire-proof building for the American Philosophical Society, it was resolved...
Identifier(s): text:610; APSimg6599; Goodman Number: 17
Description: Subscription aimed at raising money for a larger, fire-proof building for the society. Committee included Franklin Peale, John C. Cresson, Robert Cornelius, Henry Winsor, Edward Hartshornes, and Thomas P. James.
Creator: American Philosophical Society
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; American Philosophical Society; Fund raising; Organizations' facilities
Date: ca. 1867

Title: Honor to Dr. Kane
Identifier(s): text:833; APSimg6713; Goodman Number: 323
Description: Resolutions of the Arcana Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons to procure funds for erection of a monument to Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the famed Arctic explorer.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Freemasons. Arcana Lodge, No. 246 (New York, N.Y.)
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; Monuments; Fund raising; Fraternal organizations
Date: ca. 1857

Title: Bache, Sarah Franklin to George Washington, 1780 December 26
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:532
Description: Letter from Sally Bache to George Washington regarding the 2,005 shirts sewn by the Ladies Association of Philadelphia for American soldiers that were sent to Trenton, New Jersey. Sally also mentions that her father [Benjamin Franklin] and "old generals" respect and "approve highly of his [Washington's] conduct."; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808
Source: Sarah Franklin Bache Papers (Mss.B.B1245); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B1245-ead.xml
Subject: Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Clothing and dress; Women--History--18th century; Fund raising; ; ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1780-12-26; 2021