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Title: "Dunderberg -- or Thunder hill, going up the River"
Identifier(s): graphics:1133; APSimg6588
Description: Charles Willson Peale, Hudson River Sketchbook; Image #9. Spans two facing pages.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Peale-Sellers Family Collection (Mss.B.P31);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.); Waterfronts
Date: June 1801

Title: "Sugar loaf mountain near west point"
Identifier(s): graphics:1131; APSimg6591
Description: Charles Willson Peale, Hudson River Sketchbook; Image #12. Spans two facing pages.
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Peale-Sellers Family Collection (Mss.B.P31);
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.); Waterfronts
Date: June 1801

Title: William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger to Samuel George Morton, 1835 April 21
Identifier(s): text:219047
Description: Thanks for essay on consumption. Has cases of specimens, including insects from Mr. Peale. Describes route of imminent journey to Pacific.
Subject: Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851; Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman), 1807-1895; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Date: 1835-04-21

Title: In Assembly, Tuesday, December 2d, 1783, A.M. The Report of the Committee, read November 29th, relative to the Preparations to be made for Public Demonstrations of Joy, was read the second Time, and adopted as follows ...; 239. Pennsylvania. General Assembly.In Assembly, Tuesday, December 2d, 1783, A.M.
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7224
Description: Report on the proposed celebration of the Treaty of Paris in Philadelphia. Amongst other celebratory events, the committee suggests a triumphal arch (designed by Charles Willson Peale) to be installed at the "Upper End of High or Market Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, to be embellished with illuminated Paintings and suitable Inscriptions..." The report includes very detailed information on the iconography and inscriptions on the triumphal arch. They also describe how people should move around the object as pedestrians and in carriages or on horses. Fireworks are also suggested. The committee warns that "[a]ny Boys or others, who disturb the Citizens by throwing Squibs or Crackers, or otherwise, will be immediately apprehended and sent to the Work-house."; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Date: 1783-12-02; 2022

Title: Fisher
Identifier(s): graphics:2833; APSimg1552
Creator: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Source: Lewis and Clark Journals. (Mss.917.3.L58);
Subject: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Clark, William, 1770-1838; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Animals
Date: n.d.

Title: In Assembly, Tuesday, December 2d, 1783, A.M. The Report of the Committee, read November 29th, relative to the Preparations to be made for public Demonstrations of Joy, was read ...; 255 (OS). Pennsylvania. General Assembly.In Assembly, Tuesday, December 2d, 1783, A.M.
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7055
Description: Report on the proposed celebration of the Treaty of Paris in Philadelphia. Amongst other celebratory events, the committee suggests a triumphal arch (designed by Charles Willson Peale) to be installed at the "Upper End of High or Market Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets, to be embellished with illuminated Paintings and suitable Inscriptions..." The report includes very detailed information on the iconography and inscriptions on the triumphal arch. They also describe how people should move around the object as pedestrians and in carriages or on horses. Fireworks are also suggested. The committee warns that "[a]ny Boys or others, who disturb the Citizens by throwing Squibs or Crackers, or otherwise, will be immediately apprehended and sent to the Work-house."; Facsimile/Photocopy; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Media; Mobilizing the Populace; Broadsides; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
Date: 1783-12-02; 2022

Title: Hindman, Charles, and Mrs. Maria Campbell Ridgely
Identifier(s): text:349069
Subject: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Ridgely, Charles Carnan, 1760-1829; Field, Robert, 1769?-1819; Maryland Historical Society; Portrait miniatures; Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980
Date: n.d.

Title: Charles Waterton to Dawson Turner, 1836 December 20
Identifier(s): text:319371
Description: ALS. 3p. Discusses visit to Philadelphia in April 1824, his portrait by C.W. Peale, his book Wanderings, and 2 expeditions to Africa. Mentions Sir Thomas Gage, Charles Butler, Lord Henry Bathurst, Sir Joseph Bank General physical description: 9x7 1/2
Subject: Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827; Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787; Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1714-1794; Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Date: 1836-12-20