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Title: Dresden Codex
Identifier(s): graphics:1633; APSimg7057
Description: Black and white illustration, with some color added, of page 69, Mayan glyphs of the Dresden Codex, Yucatan, Mexico.; Mayan #1, Dresden Codex #1; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Villacorta, Carlos A.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan (State); Mayas; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1930

Title: Cherokee clubs
Identifier(s): graphics:2991; APSimg7142
Description: Black and white illustration of two Cherokee "war" clubs carried by dancers during Victory dance, North Carolina.; Related to Frank G. Speck Cherokee Collection; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Source: Papers and drawings for Cherokee materials (Mss.970.3.W78); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.970.3.W78-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--North Carolina; Cherokee Indians
Date: 1930-1950

Title: Illustration of the Transit of Venus.
Identifier(s): graphics:6017; APSimg4930
Description: Illustration demonstrating the transit of Venus in the year 1769.; Call Number: 506.73 Am4t v. 1; American Philosophical Society Transactions.
Creator: Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796
Source: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (506.73.Am4t);
Subject: Math & Physics; Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796; Transit of Venus; Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Date: 1768

Title: "A projection and Calculation of the Transit of Venus"
Identifier(s): graphics:6010; local: APSimg4928
Description: Diagram showing the transit of Venus.; Call Number: 523.92 P65 No. 6; See also APSimg4930 for David Rittenhouse's similar transit of Venus illustration.
Creator: Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782et al
Subject: Math & Physics; Astronomy--Early works to 1800; Transit of Venus; Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782
Date: 1761

Title: Cherokee head-dress
Identifier(s): graphics:2994; APSimg7143
Description: Black and white illustration of three types of Cherokee head-dress, hawk and heron feather, worn by dancers, North Carolina.; Related to Frank G. Speck Cherokee Collection; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Source: Papers and drawings for Cherokee materials (Mss.970.3.W78); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.970.3.W78-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--North Carolina; Cherokee Indians
Date: 1930-1950

Title: Diagram of the earth, showing the path of the transit of Venus.
Identifier(s): APSimg4925; APSimg4925
Description: Call Number: 523.92 P65 No.7
Creator: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742
Source: Dr. Halley's disseration on the method of determining the parallax of the sun by the transit of Venus, June 6, 1761. (523.92.P65); http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=507
Subject: Math & Physics; Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742; Transit of Venus; Astronomy--Early works to 1800
Date: 1767

Title: "Natural Selection," Men of the Day, No 33.
Identifier(s): graphics:5707; local: APSimg8029
Subject: Biological Sciences; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Vanity Fair; Prints Collection
Date: 1871 September 30

Title: "Prof. Darwin."
Identifier(s): graphics:5703; APSdigobj3175
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Biological Sciences; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Caricatures; Prints Collection
Date: 1874 February 18

Title: Dresden Codex
Identifier(s): graphics:1630; APSimg7058
Description: Color illustration of page 46, Mayan glyphs of the Dresden Codex, Yucatan, Mexico.; Mayan #1, Dresden Codex #2; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Gates, William
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of Mexico--Yucatan (State); Mayas; Mayan languages--Writing
Date: 1932

Title: Ojibwa war customs
Identifier(s): graphics:3622; APSimg6919
Description: Two black and white illustrations of an Ojibwa man's head showing positions of feathers in times of peace and war.; Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Creator: Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
Source: Paul Radin Papers (Mss.497.3.R114); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.R114-ead.xml
Subject: Native American Images; Indians of North America--Michigan; Ojibwa Indians
Date: 1917-1926