Provenance

Gift of Elizabeth Moyer and Michael Powanda, 2007 and 2008.

Preferred citation

Cite as: Albert C. Peale Papers, Edwin O. Kirk - Albert C. Peale Collection, American Philosophical Society

Processing information

Catalogued by Scott Ziegler, Shaun Kirkpatrick, Janet Hallahan, Greg Jackson, and Eric Rosenzweig, April 2009.

Related material

APS holds several additional collections relating to the Peale family; see especially the Titian Ramsey Peale Sketches (1817-1875) for biographical data and materials relating to Albert Charles Peale’s great-uncle, who participated in the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1819-21) and the Wilkes Expedition to the Pacific Coast, Fiji, and the Philippines (1838-42).

The United States Geological Survey Field Records Library in Denver holds many notebooks and field notes created by Albert Charles Peale (1873-1907, n.d.) in his service for that agency.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington, D.C., holds the Edwin Kirk Papers (1783-1893, 1905-1941, n.d.).

The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center in Laramie, Wyoming, holds the William Rush Taggart Papers (1872-1873, .45 cubic feet).