| 1 | Creator: | Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Charles Coleman Sellers Collection
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1940-1978 | | | | Abstract: | The collection of Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980) contains copious and detailed documentation of the art of Charles Willson Peale and his family. It consists of working files for Sellers's numerous publications, including his
Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (1952);
Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace (1969);
C. W. Peale's Portraits of Washington (1951);
Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (1962);
Mr. Peale's Museum (1980).
Most files include photographs of the art work, notes on the piece, and correspondence with authorities or owners. Other series include one relating to the paintings of various other Peales, including Anna C., James, Mary Jane, Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Sarah Miriam, and a miscellaneous artist file, which includes the same type of material and information on many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, including Thomas Eakins, George Healy, Robert Edge Pine, William Rush, Thomas Sully, Benjamin West, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, etc. There is a separate Sellers collection at Dickinson College, primarily personal in nature. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.3 | | | | Extent: | 19.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Artists | Comanche Indians | Cree Indians | Crow Indians | Dakota Indians | Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916 | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Gelatin silver prints | Healy, George Peter Alexander, 1813-1894 | Indians of North America--Great Lakes (North America) | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--Pacific Coast | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Mandan Indians | Northwest Coast Indians | Ojibwa Indians | Painters--United States | Peale family | Peale, Anna Claypoole, 1791-1878 | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Peale, James,1749-1831. | Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902 | Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 | Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 | Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 | Peale, Sarah Miriam, 1800-1885 | Photographs | Pine, Robert Edge, 1730?-1788 | Plains Indians | Rush, William, 1756-1833 | Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980 | Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 | Tlingit Indians | Washington, George, 1732-1799--Portraits, caricatures, etc | West, Benjamin, 1738-1820 | Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 | |
| 2 | Creator: | Bowers, Alfred W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, Fort Berthold Reservation
| | | | Dates: | 1967-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Includes texts, vocabulary, etc.; letter to Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.; table of contents. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.84 | | | | Extent: | 11.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropological linguistics | Bowers, Alfred W. | Catholic Church--Missions--North Dakota | Cemeteries | Coyote (Legendary character)--Legends | Creation--Mythology | Deer hunting | Driver, James | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) | Hidatsa Indians | Hidatsa Indians--Education | Hidatsa Indians--Folklore | Hidatsa Indians--Funeral customs and rites | Hidatsa Indians--History | Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century | Hidatsa Indians--Religion | Hidatsa Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs | Hidatsa Indians--Warfare | Hidatsa language | Hidatsa language--Dictionaries | Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. | Hidatsa language--Grammar | Hidatsa mythology | Hollow, Robert C. | Hunting | Indian reservations--North Dakota | Indians of North America--North Dakota--History | Influenza | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Mandan Indians | Mandan language | Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905 | Minot (N.D.) | New Town (N.D.) | Oral history | Rifles | Sacagawea | Sacagawea | Smallpox--North Dakota | Sound recordings | |
| 3 | Creator: | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Requires cookie* | | | | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | | | | Title: | Lewis and Clark Journals
| | | | Dates: | 1804-1806 | | | | Abstract: | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were explorers. This collection contains the manuscript journals kept by Lewis and Clark on their travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. There are interlineations throughout by Nicholas Biddle, who published his narrative "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark" (1814). | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.3.L58 | | | | Extent: | 30.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bertin, Exupère Joseph | Chinook Indians | Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Crayon drawings | Early National Politics | Exploration | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Missouri | Indians of North America--Montana | Indians of North America--North Dakota | Indians of North America--Oregon | Journals (notebooks) | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | Louisiana Purchase--Discovery and exploration | Mandan Indians | Maps | Missouri Indians | Native America | Natural history | Northwest Coast Indians | Oto indians | Plains Indians | Plateau Indians | Salish Indians | Shoshoni Indians | Sihasapa Indians | Sketches. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States--Exploring expeditions | West (U.S.)--Description and travel | |
| 4 | Creator: | Bowers, Alfred W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mandan-Hidatsa Ethnohistory and Linguistics
| | | | Dates: | 1969 | | | | Abstract: | Primarily consists of autobiographical stories, creation stories, and medicine stories collected by Alfred W. Bowers in earlier decades. The stories are read in segments in Bowers' English translation to two native consultants, who then translate the material into both Mandan and Hidatsa, or occasionally into either Mandan or Hidatsa alone. A small number of stories are told in Mandan only. Also includes English discussions of the Mandan and Hidatsa domestic life, material culture, personal reminscences, and histories of the Crow-Flies-High Band and the Fort Buford and Fort Berthold settlements. Bowers' original table of contents also available. Recorded at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, in 1969. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.81 | | | | Extent: | 19.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropological linguistics | Autobiography | Bears--Folklore | Beavers | Bowers, Alfred W. | Buffaloes--Folklore | Burial | Cemeteries | Coffins | Conversation | Creation--Mythology | Dogs--Folklore | Ethnohistory | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) | Hidatsa Indians | Hidatsa Indians--Biography | Hidatsa Indians--Economic conditions | Hidatsa Indians--Folklore | Hidatsa Indians--Government relations | Hidatsa Indians--History | Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century | Hidatsa Indians--Material culture | Hidatsa Indians--Medicine | Hidatsa Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs | Hidatsa language | Hidatsa mythology | Hidatsa women | Horses | Hunters--Folklore | Indians of North America--North Dakota | Indians of North America--North Dakota--History | Linguistics | Mandan Indians | Mandan Indians--Biography | Mandan Indians--Economic conditions | Mandan Indians--Folklore | Mandan Indians--History | Mandan Indians--History--19th century | Mandan Indians--Material culture | Mandan Indians--Medicine | Mandan Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Mandan Indians--Social life and customs | Mandan language | Mandan mythology | Mandan women | Mother and child--Folklore | Older women--Folklore | Porcupines--Folklore | Quests (Expeditions)--Folklore | Rattlesnakes | Ringworm | Rivers--North Dakota | Siblings--Folklore | Snakes--Folklore | Sound recordings | Sun-dance | Turtles--Folklore | United States--Census, 9th, 1870 | Warriors | |
| 5 | Creator: | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1783-1817 | | | | Abstract: | A physician, natural historian, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) was one of the central figures in Philadelphia's early national scientific establishment. Having received his medical training in European universities, Barton was appointed Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789, lecturing on botany, materia medica, natural history. A prolific author, he established his reputation as one of the nation's preeminent botanists through his botanical text book
The Elements of Botany (1803), but his contribtions to zoology, ethnology, and medicine were equally noteworthy. Barton's monograph on the "fascinating faculty" of the rattlesnake and his efforts in historical linguistics (
New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1798) were widely read, and his
Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal (1804-1809) was one of the nation's first medical journals and an important outlet for natural historical research.
The Barton Papers offer a comprehensive view of the professional work of Benjamin Smith Barton from the time of his return to the United States in 1789 until his death. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence, Subject Files, Bound Volumes, Graphic Materials, and Printing Plates. The collection includes a particularly valuable series of botanical, medical, and natural historical drawings collected by Barton for research, reference, and publication. Among the many artists represented are William Bartram, Frederick Pursh, Pierre Turpin, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B284d | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Art | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Bartram, John, 1699-1777 | Bartram, William, 1739-1823 | Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 | Botanists | Botany--Study and teaching--19th century | Botany--Virginia | Buffalo (N.Y.)--Description and travel | Business and Skilled Trades | Chemistry--18th century | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee language | Choctaw Indians | Diaries. | Drawings. | Dysentery. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Education | Electricity--18th century | Engravings. | Ethnobotany | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Geology--18th century | Gout | Harden, Jane LeConte | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868 -- Pictorial works | Hudson River (N.Y.)--Description and travel--18th century | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Agriculture | Indians of North America--Languages | Kaigana Indians | Kaskaskia Indians | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Mammals--Classification | Mandan Indians | Mastodons | Materia medica | Medicine | Medicine--Practice--18th century | Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century | Meteorology--United States--18th century | Meteors | Mineralogy | Native America | Natural History | Natural history--18th century | Natural history--19th century | New Jersey--Description and travel--18th century | New York (State)--Description and travel--18th century | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel | Notebooks | Osage language | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Physics | Political Correspondence | Printing and Publishing | Printing plates | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science and Technology | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Sketchbooks | Sketches. | Tlaxcala (Mexico) | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Turpin, P. J. F., (Pierre Jean François), 1775-1840 | Tuscarora Indians | University of Pennsylvania--Faculty | Venereal disease | Virginia--Description and travel--18th century | Watercolors | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1793 | Zoology--18th century | |
| 6 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1960-present | | | | Abstract: | The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials vary in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and history, and including study of Indian cultures from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.Am4 | | | | Extent: | 30.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Acoma language | Anthropology--History | Arapaho Indians--Music | Arapaho language | Athapascan Indians | Athapascan languages | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cahuilla language | Carrier language | Cherokee Indians | Cherokee Indians--History | Cherokee language | Cheyenne Indians | Cheyenne language | Chickasaw Indians | Chilcotin language | Choctaw Indians | Choctaw language | Cochiti dialect | Columbia-Wenatchi language | Colville Lake (N.W.T.) | Comox language | Contact sheets | Cree language | Creek Indians | Creek Indians--History | Creek language | Dakota Indians | Dakota Indians--History | Dakota Indians--Music | Dakota language | Dance--Anthropological aspects--United States | Delaware Indians--Music | Diegueno language | Dogrib Indians | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimo languages | Eskimos | Ethnobotany | Field notes. | Fort Good Hope (N.W.T.) | Fox language | Fur trade | Gelatin silver prints | Gwenhoot Indians | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haisla Indians | Hare Indians | Heiltsuk Indians--History | Hidatsa Indians | Hidatsa language | Highland Chontal language | Hopi Indians--History | Hopi dance | Hopi language | Hualapai language | Hupa language | Indian dance--Michigan | Indians of Mexico | Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Chiapas | Indians of Mexico--Oaxaca | Indians of Mexico--Religion | Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--Arkansas | Indians of North America--Canada | Indians of North America--Canada, Northern--Social life and customs | Indians of North America--Michigan | Indians of North America--Minnesota | Indians of North America--Missions | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--South Dakota | Indians of North America--Wisconsin | Indians of the West Indies--Antilles, Lesser | Iowa language | Iroquois Indians--History | Iroquois Indians--Virginia | Jemez language | Karok language | Kawchottine Indians | Kawki language | Kiowa Indians | Koasati language | Kutenai language | Lacandon Indians | Little Bog Horn, Battle of, 1876 | Mackenzie River Delta (N.W.T.) | Mam language | Mandan Indians | Mandan language | Massachusett language | Matlatzinca language | Maya Indians | Mayan languages | Mazatec language | Menominee language | Michif language | Micmac Indians | Miwok language | Mixtec Indians | Mobilian trade language | Mohawk Indians | Mohawk Indians--History | Mohawk language | Munsee Indians--History | Nahuatl language | Narragansett Indians--History | Navajo Indians--History | Navajo language | Nez Perce Indians--History | Nez Percé language | Nicollet, J.N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843 | Niska language | Nootka language | Ntlakyapamuk Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa Indians--History | Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs | Ojibwa dance | Ojibwa language | Okanagan language | Oneida language | Onondaga language | Otomi language | Ottawa Indians--History | Paiute language | Papamiento language | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Passamaquoddy Indians | Passamaquoddy language | Pawnee Indians | Penobscot Indians--History | Penobscot language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Pima Bajo language | Pima language | Plains Indians | Pokomam language | Pomo language | Potawatomi language | Powhattan Indians--History | Pueblo Indians | Quileute language | Salishan languages | Sandia dialect | Seminole Indians | Seminole Indians--History | Seneca Indians--History | Seneca language | Shawnee language | Siksika Indians | Siouan languages | Sketches. | Slides. | Smallpox | Sound recordings | Southwest Indians | Spokane language | Stockbridge Indians--History | Sub-Arctic Indians | Tahltan language | Taino Indians | Teton Indians--History | Tlakluit language | Tlingit Indians | Tohono O'Odham dialect | Tolowa language | Tsimshian Indians | Tsimshian language | Tuscarora Indians--History | Wakashan language | Wasco language | Western Apache language | Wichita language | Xinca language | Yakama language | Yamasee War, 1715 | Yana language | Yavapai language | Yuchi Indians--History | Yuchi language | Yuma language | Yupik languages | Zapotec language | Zuni Indians--History | Zuni language | |
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