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Title: Mastodon skull
Identifier(s): graphics:992; APSimg6276
Description: Oversized.
Creator: Krandman, O.
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; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Mastodons; Skulls
Date: n.d.

Title: Missourium theristrocaulodon, or Leviathan missouriensis open for exhibition, in the saloon at the rere of Tommey's Hotel, entrance in Great Britain-Street, (opposite the Lying-in-Hospital.) Particular description and explanations given every day at 3o'c
Identifier(s): text:1763; APSimg6475; Goodman Number: 208; 973 C683 No. 484
Description: Advertises one of several sets of skeletal remains of large, New World creatures exhumed by this German-born scientist- showman, who made a living exhibiting his finds for a fee and selling them to museums after their immediate popular appeal had diminished. This particular skeleton, which Richard Owen argued was a species of Mastodon when Koch brought it to London for exhibit, was sold to the British Museum in 1844.; Includes illustration of a man standing beneath a fossil skeleton, with another man riding an elephant next to it.
Creator: Koch, Albert C.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Fossils; Skeletons; Mammoths; Mastodons; Paleontology
Date: [1843]

Title: Great American mastodon!! Now exhibiting at the hall
Identifier(s): text:349; APSimg6744; Goodman Number: 207; 973 C683 No. 477
Description: Indicates that James Darrach will be in attendance with the mastodon to answer all questions of visitors. This nearly complete mastodon skeleton, known as the Warren mastodon, was exhumed by Nathaniel Brewster and A. J. Prime from Orange County, New York, the same county in which Charles Willson Peale had found his mastodon remains nearly fifty years earlier (see #71 above). After mounting by Prime, the skeleton was exhibited in New York State and in various New England towns before being sold to Dr. John Collins Warren of Boston. Warren's heirs, in turn, sold the remains to the American Museum of Natural History in 1907.; Extra oversized.
Creator: Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Paleontology; Mastodons
Date: [1845]

Title: From the Utica Morning Herald, February 11, 1891. Oneida Historical Society. The monthly meeting held yesterday-- mastodon's teeth and Indian relics
Identifier(s): text:1025; APSimg6620; Goodman Number: 41
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. 26.
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; Mastodons; Antiquities; Indians of North America
Date: 1891

Title: A Young Man from “Ultima Thule” Visits Jefferson: Alexander von Humboldt in Philadelphia and Washington
Identifier(s): video:1035; 2009_11_021
Description: Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture; The Jayne Lecture on Alexander von Humboldt discusses his correspondence with Jefferson.; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 155, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 247-262
Subject: History of Science; Slavery; Presidents; Mastodons; United States, History, 19th century; Politics; Physicians; Cartography; Spectacle; Fossil plants; Henry LaBarre Jayne Lecture; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-11-14