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Title: View from scientific balloon, "over eroded bad lands."
Identifier(s): graphics:3235; APSimg7796; Graphics Number: F8-43-20
Description: View from balloon in flight.
Source: William Francis Gray Swann Papers (Mss.B.Sw1); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sw1-ead.xml
Subject: Math & Physics ; Panoramic views; Balloons (Aircraft)
Date: n. d.

Title: Monumental grandeur of the Mississippi valley! Now exhibiting for a short time only, _____ with scientific lectures on American Aerchiology [sic]. ...This gorgeous panorama, with all the aboriginal monuments of a large extent of country once roamed by the red man, was painted by the eminent artist I. J. Egan
Identifier(s): text:1777; APSimg6546; Goodman Number: 259; 973 C683 No. 437
Description: Less than one year after Broadside #61 was issued (Goodman #258), Dickeson had collaborated with the artist J. J. (sometimes given as I. J.) Egan to produce a panorama eight feet high and 320 feet long based on his sketches. That panorama, one of the few surviving examples of this once popular form of amusement and instruction, is now kept by the City Art Museum of St. Louis.
Creator: Dickeson, Montroville Wilson
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. 1851]

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]