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Title: Dog of the American Indians.
Identifier(s): graphics:731; APSimg4949
Description: Signed BS Barton backwards in bottom of right-hand corner.
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: Natural history; Dogs; Indians of North America--Social life and customs.; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: n.d.

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: 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