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Title: Sir, A number of the citizens of this state have recently formed a society under the title of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
Identifier(s): text:114; APSimg6407; Goodman Number: 30; 973 C683 No. 80
Description: Circular letter, originally sent to John Vaughan, requesting the receiver to aid the society with observations and discoveries and to communicate this request to others. Especially entreats reader to forward natural history specimens in order that the society might augment the holdings of its newly-founded museum. Autograph signature of Stephen Elliot, president of the society.
Creator: Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Natural history; Organizations; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1813

Title: Monsieur, Le Musée de Paris ayant transporté ses séances au local de M. [Jean-François] Pilatre de Rozier....A l'hôtel du Musée de Paris...le 28 août 1783
Identifier(s): text:85; APSimg6396; Goodman Number: 32; 973 C683 No. 570
Description: Sent to Benjamin Franklin while he was in Passy, France. Manuscript signature of [Jean-François] Cailhava [d'Estendoux], president of the society.
Creator: Musée de Paris
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Societies; Galleries & museums; Invitations
Date: 1783

Title: Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., July 21, 1880. Sir: It is with deep regret that I am obliged to inform you of the death of Count Louis François de Pourtalès, the keeper of this museum
Identifier(s): text:143; APSimg6415; Goodman Number: 67; 973 C683 No. 656
Description: Black-bordered notification of the death of this Swiss naturalist who came to the United States in 1846 and became the keeper of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard from 1873 until his death.
Creator: Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Announcements; Galleries & museums; Death
Date: 1880

Title: Amusement here with science is combin'd, to please, improve, and cultivate the mind
Identifier(s): text:137; APSimg6412; Goodman Number: 63; 973 C683 No. 164
Description: This broadside, apparently made up of parts clipped from a larger item and pasted together, is possibly an advertisement for Peale's Museum. Ill.: wood engraving by Lansing of eagle holding shield and arrows.
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Advertisements
Date: n.d.

Title: Notice sur le Musée des antiques, dessiné et gravé par P. Bouillon, avec des notices explicatives par Mr. de St. Victor./ Prospectus of the Museum of antiquities, designed and engraved by Mr. Bouillon, with explanatory notes by Mr. de St. Victor
Identifier(s): text:308; APSimg6493; Goodman Number: 257; 973 C683 No. 508
Description: Back of one page contains note to [Thomas] Sully written by Lewis D. Belair, February 28, 1818. Note on document indicates that M. L. Binsse of New York was authorized to obtain subscribers to the work at Paris cost.; French and English in double columns.
Creator: Bouillon, Pierre, 1776-1831
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Social Science; Broadside Subdivision: Archaeology and Antiquities; Antiquities; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1818

Title: Sketch of the Peale Museum
Identifier(s): graphics:345; local: APSimg5755
Description: Peale #186a.
Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885et al
Subject: Natural history; Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885; Galleries & museums; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1826/1827]

Title: Cour intérieure de Musée de Mexico
Identifier(s): graphics:3924; APSimg5225
Description: Black and white image of an interior courtyard of the Museum of Mexico.; Image 36. Mounted albumen, 9.25x7"
Creator: Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915
Source: Abbot-Charnay Collection (Mss.913.72.Ab23); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.913.72.Ab23-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Abbot, Griffith Evans, 1850-1927; Charnay, Désirée, 1828-1915; Courtyards; Galleries & museums
Date: ca. 1880-1882

Title: Rubens Peale museum solicitation.
Identifier(s): graphics:6224; local: APSimg8026
Subject: Early American history; Peale, Elizabeth; Peale family; Galleries & museums; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865
Date: 1805 March 17

Title: City Museum. Callowhill Street, below Fifth. Another great bill. [List of attractions]
Identifier(s): text:371; APSimg6521; Goodman Number: 66; 973 C683 No. 520
Description: The many attractions advertised in the broadside include: a magnetic ship and magnetic batteries; natural history specimens, all "scientifically prepared and arranged"; an Indian cabinet; a collection of paintings and statues; as well as song, dance, drama, and a show by Tom Thumb. Lists Ashton & Company as the proprietors of the museum, M. W. Dickeson as professor of natural sciences, W[illia]m T.W. Dickeson as curator, John E. McDonough as stage manager, and J. J. Egan as scenic artist. Ill.: facade of the museum.
Creator: City Museum of Philadelphia
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Natural history; Galleries & museums; Theatrical productions
Date: 1854

Title: Proxy. I hereby constitute _____ to be my attorney, to deliberate and vote for me at a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.... September _____, 1836.
Identifier(s): text:146; APSimg6418; Goodman Number: 74; 973 C683 No. 603
Description: A blank legal form for creating a proxy for a meeting of the stockholders of the Philadelphia Museum Company.
Creator: Philadelphia Museum
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Meetings; Voting; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1836

Title: Monsieur, La Commission centrale de la Société de Géographie a décidé dans sa séance du 22 septembre 1836, qu'il serait formé au
Identifier(s): text:604; APSimg6732; Goodman Number: 78
Description: Received by the American Philosophical Society on November 1, 1836. Circular letter containing the autograph signature of Roux de Rochelle, president of the Central Commission. Proposes the construction of a geographical museum where objects of natural history, art, and antiquity can be housed.; Located in folder: Rec'd 1836 November 1.
Creator: Société de géographie (France)
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Institutions; Broadside Subdivision: Museums and Menageries; Galleries & museums; Geography; Natural history
Date: [1836]

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: 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