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Title: Antiquités helvétiennes de la forêt de Vernand-dessous près Lausanne
Identifier(s): APSimg6665; APSimg6665; Goodman Number: 265
Description: Description of the contents of an ancient tumulus excavated by Troyon in which he discovered the remains of human sacrifice victims.; Item call number: 571 P19, no. 6.
Creator: Troyon, Frédéric, 1815-1866
Source: Pamphlets relating to prehistoric archaeology (571 P19);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeological sites; Mounds (Burials); Sacrifices
Date: 1856

Title: Notice sur la belle copie en marbre blanc du zodiaque circulaire de Denderah
Identifier(s): text:602; APSimg6613; Goodman Number: 262
Description: Offers for sale a marble copy of the zodiac from the Temple of Denderah executed by J.-J. Castex. The original, found during the French expedition to Egypt at the turn of the eighteenth century, was considered as "un des monumens les plus précieux des connaissances astronomiques des Egyptiens."
Creator: Michaux, André, 1746-1802
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Temples; Zodiac
Date: ca. 1819

Title: Cherokee translations
Identifier(s): text:375; APSimg6549; Goodman Number: 270-273; 973 C683 No. 474
Description: Includes four Cherokee translations of: the 8th Commandment, the 4th Commandment, the 10 Commandments, and the Prodigal Son.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Cherokee Indians--Language; Ten commandments; Biblical events
Date: n.d.

Title: Department of War, May 15, 1826. To -----[,] Sir: It is the intention of the government to collect and preserve such information as may be obtained concerning the Indian languages.... You will report to the Department, at as early a period as you can, the information required.
Identifier(s): text:1771; APSimg6496; Goodman Number: 281; 973 C683 No. 112
Description: Letter enclosed originally with the three following documents: 1) "uniform comparative vocabulary"; 2) "verbal forms and sentences" for translation; and 3) "an attempt," by Albert Gallatin, "to arrange the Indian tribes of the United States east of the Stony Mountains, according to languages and dialects" (for Gallatin's chart, see Goodman #275). Signed in type by James Barbour.
Creator: United States. War Dept.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Linguistics
Date: 1826

Title: Sur les silex taillés trouvés dans le diluvium du département de la Somme; Remarques de M. Boucher de Perthes à l'occasion d'une communication récente sur ler pierres travaillées par les habitants primitifs des Gaules
Identifier(s): text:530; APSimg6655; Goodman Number: 256
Description: Refutes claim by Robert of the contemporaneity of man and the fossilized pachyderms and other extinct animals.; Item call number: 571 P19, no. 3.
Creator: Boucher de Perthes, M. (Jacques), 1788-1868
Source: Pamphlets relating to prehistoric archaeology (571 P19);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeology; Fossils; Extinct animals
Date: ca. 1861

Title: A table of Indian tribes of the United States, east of the Stony Mountains, arranged according to languages and dialects
Identifier(s): text:1183; local: APSimg1710; local: 986; local: 275
Description: Table of 102 Indian tribes grouped by languages and place of residence. Gallatin, secretary of the treasury of the United States (1801-14) and diplomat, was originally stimulated toward linguistic research by Alexander von Humboldt. Gallatin's linguistic interest culminated in his Synopsis of the Indian tribes (1836), a work which sought to classify Indian tribes by comparing their languages. In 1842 Gallatin founded the American Ethnological Society, and afterward made both financial and literary contributions toward its Transactions.; Item call number: Pam. v. 1183, no. 16. Originally enclosed with Goodman #281 (Broadsides Collection: 973 C683 no. 112).
Creator: Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Indians of North America--Language; Linguistics
Date: 1826

Title: To the learned and judicious. [Page 4:] Proposals for printing, by subscription, An easy introduction to the Latin language, adapted to the comprehension of beginners
Identifier(s): text:791; APSimg6685; Goodman Number: 277
Description: Prospectus announcing the creation of a work on the study of Latin for beginners, to be written by the Rev. W. Nixon. Includes specimens of grammar, vocabulary, and translation, in addition to a testimonial of Nixon's work Prosody Made Easy.; Hays reference #: Vol. 77, no. 74.
Creator: Nixon, William
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F85-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Language; Linguistics; Education
Date: n.d.

Title: History of the Indian tribes of North America. With biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs. Embellished with 120 portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War at Washington.
Identifier(s): text:380; APSimg6501; Goodman Number: 292; 973 C683 No. 399
Description: Prospectus for a work published in 1838-44. Includes recommendation from Jared Sparks. McKenney was an administrator of Indian affairs for the United States government. Hall was a lawyer, banker, and author who wrote primarily of pioneer life in Illinois and the Ohio Valley.
Creator: McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868; McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 Hall, James, 1793-1868
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Indians of North America; Tribal chiefs
Date: 1830

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: Sir William Jones
Identifier(s): text:358; APSimg6495; Goodman Number: 279; 973 C683 No. 301
Description: Biographical sketch of this famed Oriental scholar. Includes an illustration.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794; Linguistics
Date: n.d.

Title: Proposals for printing, by subscription, An Historical and philosophical inquiry into the original [sic], nature, and design of various remains of antiquity, which have been discovered in America
Identifier(s): text:692; APSimg6566; Goodman Number: 255
Description: Originally enclosed with letter from B. S. Barton to Thomas Pennant, August 30, 1790. This work, like several others proposed by Barton, was apparently never published.
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: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Antiquities & archaeological sites; Indians of North America
Date: 1789

Title: Indian antiquities. A course of popular and highly interesting lectures on American archeology will be delivered by Prof. M. W. Dickeson, M.D., illustrated by diagrams, paintings, and upwards of ten thousand specimens of American antiquities, collected by him during a period of twelve years research in the valley of the Mississippi
Identifier(s): text:1785; APSimg6545; Goodman Number: 258; 973 C683 No. 61
Description: Advertises a series of lectures to be given under the auspices of the Jefferson Institute by M. W. Dickeson, archeologist and one-time Philadelphia physician, who spent twelve years in the southern Mississippi valley drawing and excavating mounds which had been erected there by the aboriginal populations. Includes illustrations of Indian artifacts and "Selterstown Mound." Signed in type by Daniel L. Leeds, J. Clement Remington, and John Woolman, members of the committee on lectures.
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
Date: [1851]

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: Lecture on the mound builders[.] No subject more fascinating than the study of the lost race of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. ...Lecture fully illustrated by the stereopticon, charts, and actual specimens
Identifier(s): text:318; APSimg6547; Goodman Number: 261; 973 C683 No. 526
Description: Broadside advertising a lecture on the mounds and archaeological remains left by Native Americans who once inhabited the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys.
Creator: MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson), 1848-1939
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Archaeology; Indians of North America; Mounds (Burials); Public speaking
Date: [1886]

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]

Title: A table of French verbs...inscib'd to the American Philosophical Society
Identifier(s): text:314; local: APSimg6741; local: 269
Description: Extra oversized table of the conjugation of French verbs in various tenses, with models for regular and irregular verbs. Includes illustration: wood cut of ship approaching shore inscribed "they steer to Liberty's shores."
Creator: Carré, C. (Charles)et al
Subject: 973 C683 No. 37; Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Linguistics; Language; Grammar; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French--Dictionaries--French; French language--Grammar; Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1780