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Title: Rubens Peale to Franklin Peale, 1828 October 30
Identifier(s): text:224976
Description: Concerning successful visit of Indians to his museum.
Creator: Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865et al
Subject: Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870; Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale's Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Date: 1828-10-30

Title: Joseph Banks to [Charles Willson] Peale, 1794 October 1
Identifier(s): text:257906
Description: Concerning natural history museums in England. Advice on his museum.
Subject: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1794-10-01

Title: Valuable real estate. Philadelphia Museum. Peremptory sale
Identifier(s): text:845; APSimg6707; Goodman Number: 79
Description: Faced with severe financial difficulties, the board of trustees of the Philadelphia Museum (more popularly known as Peale's Museum) was forced to sell the building it had erected in 1838 (see Goodman #73: 973 C683, no. 95). On August 5, 1841, Robert Patterson, acting on behalf of the American Philosophical Society, tendered the winning bid for the structure, the society having decided to sell its Philosophical Hall on Independence Square to the city of Philadelphia and move to the relatively new building which had been constructed for the Philadlephia Museum. Negotiations with the city fell through, however, and the Philadelphia Museum was given a temporary reprieve from its financial obligations, while the American Philosophical Society was forced to remain in its original home.; Located in Box #5.
Creator: Wolbert, C. J. & Company, Auctioneers
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: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; American Philosophical Society; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Auctions
Date: 1841

Title: Rubens Peale to Charles Mayer, 1834 October 1
Identifier(s): text:163768
Description: New York, Photo.of A.L.S. 2p. (see Peale papers.) Concerning the possible sale of the Baltimore museum. This item was slipped in Rubens Peale's volume of Correspondence and Miscellany, pertaining chiefly to the New York Museum; 1826-1849.
Subject: Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865; Mayer, Charles, 1799-1862; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale's Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Date: 1834-10-01

Title: A short account of the behemoth or mammoth
Identifier(s): text:64; APSimg1717; Goodman Number: 210; 973 C683 No. 279
Description: Rembrandt and Rubens Peale, sons of Charles Willson Peale, noted Philadelphia artist and museum proprietor, took one of two skeletons which they and their father had exhumed in New York (see broadside #583) for a European exhibition tour lasting a little over one year (1802-03). In an effort to obtain the funds necessary for their trip across the Atlantic, the two brothers first exhibited the fossilized creature in New York, an exhibit for which this broadside was issued.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Mammoths; Exhibitions; Paleontology
Date: 1802

Title: Skeleton of the mammoth is now to be seen at the museum, in a separate room. For admittance to which, 50 cents; to the museum, as usual, 25 cents
Identifier(s): text:365; APSimg6733; Goodman Number: 71; 973 C683 No. 583
Description: Apparently issued in conjunction with the opening of the "mammoth room" in Peale's Museum, December 24, 1801. Peale exhumed his fossilized specimen from marl pits in New York with financial aid (in the form of a no-interest loan) from the American Philosophical Society.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Mammoths; Fossils; Paleontology
Date: ca. 1801

Title: Gentlemen, I thank you for the honor you do me in the favor of this visit; and I will endeavor to explain to you in as few words as possible, my design in forming this museum, and the motive which induced me to request you, gentlemen, to take on yourselves the trouble of becoming visitors and directors of it
Identifier(s): text:1749; APSimg6523; Goodman Number: 70; 973 C683 No. 358
Description: Describes purpose and present state of Peale's Museum. Peale's attempt to create a public institution of his museum began with the creation of a board of "visitors" or trustees who were to initially provide advice and financial support, and later completely oversee the museum's operation. Signed in type by Charles Willson Peale.
Creator: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Natural history; Specimens; Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Date: 1792

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: Rubens Peale to Benjamin Franklin Peale, 1829 July 8
Identifier(s): text:163767
Description: New York, A.L.S. 2p. (see Peale family papers.) Concerning museum business of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Subject: Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865; Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870; Peale's Museum (New York, N.Y.); Peale's Museum (Baltimore, Md.); Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1829-07-08

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: 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