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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Memorandum's [sic] of Rubens Peale and the events of his life &c, [ca. 1856].

Title: Memorandum's [sic] of Rubens Peale and the events of his life &c, [ca. 1856].

This is an autobiographical work and mainly discusses his father's museum in Philadelphia and his museum in Baltimore (collecting specimens, gas lighting, selling his collections). There are also anecdotes on prominent people of the time. There are notes in an unknown hand (perhaps Mary Jane Peale).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (130 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439817 View

Selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection

Title: Selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection

The microfilmed selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection contain autobiographical and biographical material; letters; writings; printed material; photographs; a sketchbook; drawings; and notebooks belonging to Charles Willson Peale and the Peale family with notes and writings by Horace Wells Sellers. The Charles Willson Peale material includes part of the preliminary draft of his autobiography (circa 1790) and a typed copy with notes and addenda by Horace Wells Sellers; typescripts of letterbooks (1767-1827); a list of portraits and Washington portrait material; a notebook pertaining to paintings and a memo book containing recipes for medicines, colors, and notes on painting technique; lectures and essays on natural history, health, domestic happiness, and Peale's museum; and letters from John De Peyster. Peale family material includes James Peale's sketchbook; Rubens Peale's letterbooks (1802-1824), lists of pictures painted at Riverside Farm, and memorandum on his life; writings by Titian Ramsay Peale on techniques of miniature painting and a biography of Charles Willson; and letters of Titian and Franklin Peale (1831-1869), with biographical comments by Sellers. Also included are a history of the United Bowmen of Philadelphia, a club Titian and Franklin belonged to; material on Peale's Museum including correspondence, minutes, articles of incorporation, and a handbook with a partial description of the museum's contents; Peale family photographs; and drawings and silhouettes.

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Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) minutes; accounts, 1820-1845, 1820-1845

Title: Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) minutes; accounts, 1820-1845 1820-1845

This collection includes minutes, 1821-1836 (2 v.), recording actions of the trustees of Peale's Museum (John Bacon, Pierce Butler, Reuben Haines, Joseph Parker Norris, Robert Patterson, Robert Maskell Patterson, Coleman Sellers, George Escol Sellers, and others), including exhibits, purchases of specimens, appointment of personnel, financial statements, etc. There is also an account book, 1820-1824 (1 v.), being a record of daily income of the museum, and stock books, 1827-1836, 1841 (2 v.), consisting of stubs of certificates of stock sold to subscribers to the museum, with a quantity of unused certificates.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Volume(s), 5 volumes, 295 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.17-19-ead.xml View

Selected Peale family papers

Title: Selected Peale family papers

The microfilmed selected Peale family papers contain papers of Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, and Titian Ramsay Peale, mainly related to Peale's Museum. Also included are one item pertaining to Franklin Peale, and one to Rubens Peale. Microfilmed on Reel P21 are manuscript of memoranda of the Philadelphia Museum, giving records and accessions for 1803-1842; financial statements (1808-1819) listing current expenditures; a manuscript of <emph render="italic">A Walk Through the Philadelphia Museum</emph> by Charles Willson Peale (after 1802); minutes of the Museum (1841-1845); manager's reports to the Board of Trustees (1833-1835), signed by Titian R. Peale (10 reports); Titian Peale's correspondence with George Ord (1827-1854), and his drawing book (circa 1820); extracts of letters written by Charles Willson Peale from Belfield and Philadelphia (1821-1823); extracts of letters written by Rembrandt Peale to Reuben Haines and Coleman Sellers (1828 September 24 and 1829 November 30), and to his wife (1830). Also included (frames 164-182) is a "Catalog of the National Portrait and Historical Gallery, illustrative of American history, comprising 269 original portraits and historical paintings, formerly belonging to Peale's Museum, to be sold without reserve, on Friday 6th October 1854... M. Thomas &amp; Sons, Auctioneers." Microfilmed on Reels P23 and P29 are miscellaneous Peale related documents from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Society Collection. Included are a report of the Committee of Councils on the use of Charles Willson Peale's windmill (1815 January 5); C. W. Peale's appeal to aid for a soldier; Rubens Peale memorial of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Museum (1831 October 25); and a register made by Franklin Peale of the medal dies of the U. S. Mint, with notes (1841) (reel P29, frames 5-31).

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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Artist file.

Title: Artist file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122401810 View

Memorandum's [sic] of Rubens Peale and the events of his life &c, [ca. 1856], Circa 1856

Title: Memorandum's [sic] of Rubens Peale and the events of his life &c, [ca. 1856] Circa 1856

This is an autobiographical work and mainly discusses his father's museum in Philadelphia and his museum in Baltimore (collecting specimens, gas lighting, selling his collections). There are also anecdotes on prominent people of the time. There are notes in an unknown hand (perhaps Mary Jane Peale).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s); 1 volume, 130 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.12c-ead.xml View

Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940], Circa 1750-1940

Title: Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940] Circa 1750-1940

This collection of letters, diaries, and other types of documents (both original and copies) was assembled primarily by Mary Jane Peale, who copied, or had copied, many family documents. The bulk of the collection centers on Charles Willson Peale, James Burd Peale, and Mary Jane Peale.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet, Ca. 2000 items

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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Correspondence, 1822-1849.

Title: Correspondence, 1822-1849.

The volume contains correspondence and miscellany relating to family matters and to the New York museum (1826-1849), including the exchange of specimens. There are also 23 letters to Benjamin Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum and its relations to the Philadelphia and New York museums. These letters mention Thomas Sully, Thomas Birch, Charles Willson Peale, and other Philadelphia artists. Other subjects mentioned are the physiognotrace, galvanic experiments, gasometers, balloons, Indians, and natural history.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (75 p.) ; 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540013 View

Rubens Peale diaries

Title: Rubens Peale diaries

A daily journal covering the last ten years of Ruben Peale's life. Much of it concerns farm and family activities, but there are also many references to his still-life painting. Entries from April 1865 describe the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral procession.

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Peale-Sellers families. Correspondence, 1686-1963.

Title: Correspondence, 1686-1963.

This collection includes wide-ranging, miscellaneous correspondence, with some other manuscripts, of members of the Peale and Sellers families, on natural history, the Philadelphia Museum, engineering, current events, and family matters. There is a group of letters and papers of Titian Ramsay Peale, including a sketchbook and a large number of loose sketches. There is also a group of letters of Rubens Peale and one of letters of Raphaelle Peale.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584100 View

Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Ru 60: Meteorological Project, 1849 1875.

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Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990120831020203941/catalog View

Rubens Peale sketchbook, 1864, 1864

Title: Rubens Peale sketchbook, 1864 1864

This volume contains pencil sketches of landscapes, designs for cards, and figures.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 13 p.

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Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902,. Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940].

Title: Peale family papers, [ca. 1750-1940].

This collection of letters, diaries, and other types of documents (both original and copies) was assembled primarily by Mary Jane Peale, who copied, or had copied, many family documents. The bulk of the collection centers on Charles Willson Peale, James Burd Peale, and Mary Jane Peale.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2000 items (2 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122473786 View

Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Sketchbook, 1864.

Title: Sketchbook, 1864.

This volume contains pencil sketches of landscapes, designs for cards, and figures.

ArchivalResource: [1] ., 13 p. ; v.

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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. List of pictures painted by Ruben Peale at Riverside Farm, 1855-1865.

Title: List of pictures painted by Ruben Peale at Riverside Farm, 1855-1865.

This volume contains a list of the subjects of 131 paintings, with dates and the names of the purchasers or those to whom the completed work was presented.

ArchivalResource: [1], 24 p. ; v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173465912 View

Sellers family. Papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive).

This collection contains correspondence among members of the Sellers and Peale families, with special emphasis on the Sellers family from 1789 to 1860. Topics include such family matters as travel, household expenses, children, deaths and funerals, and social and cultural life in Philadelphia. Included are some doggerel verses. There are also letters regarding patents, inventions, and the Sellers' businesses.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122684043 View

Peale family papers, [n.d.], n.d.

Title: Peale family papers, [n.d.] n.d.

These papers include two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt Peale relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.1081.1-ead.xml View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection

Title: Mary K. McGuigan and John F. McGuigan Jr. artists' letters collection

The collection of artists' letters compiled by Mary and John McGuigan Jr. measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1794-1938. The collection is comprised of a group of letters, writings, and signed documents to and from a variety of artists, art administrators, art critics, historians, and art-related organizations assembled from multiple sources. It also includes associated printed material with some documents and a few photographs, including carte de visites and cabinet cards.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 Linear feet

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Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers

Title: Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers

The microfilmed Mary Jane Peale and Peale family selected papers contain Mary Jane Peale's diaries and letters, as well as papers she collected relating to Rubens Peale, Eliza Burd Patterson Peale, and the Peale family. Microfilmed on Reels 3900-3901 are 10 volumes of Mary Jane Peale's diaries which contain domestic and social news, as well as discussions of Mary Jane's paintings. The bulk of the material microfilmed on Reel 3904 relates to Mary Jane Peale, including correspondence; a list of paintings by Peale, as well as a list of paintings owned by Peale; a volume on oil painting; and Peale's will. The materials relating to the family include letters between Rubens Peale and his wife, Eliza Burd Patterson Peale; letters from Rubens Peale to Franklin Peale; letters from Mrs. Peale to friends and family; and an inventory of pictures in the parlor.

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Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980. Papers, ca. 1940s-1978.

Title: Papers, ca. 1940s-1978.

This collection documents Sellers' copious and detailed work on the art of Charles Willson Peale and his family. There are working files for his numerous publications: "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). These files include photographs of the art work, notes concerning the art, and correspondence with authorities or owners.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15,000 items (21 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122440165 View

Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.). Minutes ; accounts, 1820-1845.

Title: Minutes ; accounts, 1820-1845.

This collection includes minutes, 1821-1836 (2 v.), recording actions of the trustees of Peale's Museum (John Bacon, Pierce Butler, Reuben Haines, Joseph Parker Norris, Robert Patterson, Robert Maskell Patterson, Coleman Sellers, George Escol Sellers, and others), including exhibits, purchases of specimens, appointment of personnel, financial statements, etc. There is also an account book, 1820-1824 (1 v.), being a record of daily income of the museum, and stock books, 1827-1836, 1841 (2 v.), consisting of stubs of certificates of stock sold to subscribers to the museum, with a quantity of unused certificates. There are also photocopied transcriptions of minutes housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (1821-1827) and in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1841-1845). Not copied are Rough Minutes, 1828-1835 (at the APS), and Rough Minutes, 1841-1845 (at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania).

ArchivalResource: 5 v. ; 295 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578805 View

Rubens Peale correspondence, 1822-1849, 1822-1849

Title: Rubens Peale correspondence, 1822-1849 1822-1849

The volume contains correspondence and miscellany relating to family matters and to the New York museum (1826-1849), including the exchange of specimens. There are also 23 letters to Benjamin Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum and its relations to the Philadelphia and New York museums. These letters mention Thomas Sully, Thomas Birch, Charles Willson Peale, and other Philadelphia artists. Other subjects mentioned are the physiognotrace, galvanic experiments, gasometers, balloons, Indians, and natural history.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 75 p.; 23 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.13-ead.xml View

Ricord, Alexandre, 1767-1827. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1820.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1820.

Letter dated 22 October 1820, Paris, to Rubens Peale in Philadelphia. Ricord consistently misspells Peale's first name "Ruben." He was employed in the laboratory at the Royal Museum of Natural History in Paris, and offered to exchange some specimens with Peale's Museum.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886589 View

Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Rubens Peale letter to Ch. Mayer, 1833.

Title: Rubens Peale letter to Ch. Mayer, 1833.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheets.

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List of pictures painted by Ruben Peale at Riverside Farm, 1855-1865, 1855-1865

Title: List of pictures painted by Ruben Peale at Riverside Farm, 1855-1865 1855-1865

This volume contains a list of the subjects of 131 paintings, with dates and the names of the purchasers or those to whom the completed work was presented.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 24 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.12d-ead.xml View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Patterson-Lord papers, [ca. 1809]-1876, Circa 1809-1876

Title: Patterson-Lord papers, [ca. 1809]-1876 Circa 1809-1876

This collection of Robert Patterson family papers is composed primarily of the letters of Robert Maskell Patterson, but includes some of the business and personal papers of his father, Robert, and a series of letters written from Europe in 1855 by Helen Patterson.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet, Ca. 600 items

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Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918,. Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Title: Miscellaneous artists' letters, receipts and exhibition announcements, 1731-1901.

Fifty-nine letters from artists to various people regarding paintings, art works, advice, and daily activities. Also included are a list, probably in Samuel F.B. Morse's hand, August 1, 1833, of some of the subscribers to a dinner to be given by the National Academy of Design for Charles Robert Leslie; two signed exhibition announcements, one for John H. Twachtman, and Julian A. Weir; four receipts for James Claypoole, William Birch, Gilbert Stuart (signed receipt for payment for a portrait of John Adams, 1815), and Adolph U. Wertmuller; and an indenture release deed for Stephen Warne, 1731.

ArchivalResource: 66 items (on 1 microfilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81461316 View

Peale family. Sketchbooks, 1786-1864 (bulk 1800-1864).

Title: Sketchbooks, 1786-1864 (bulk 1800-1864).

The sketches, in various media, include landscapes, animals and insects, furniture, people and flowers by various family members.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516798 View

Charles Coleman Sellers Collection, Circa 1940-1978

Title: Charles Coleman Sellers Collection Circa 1940-1978

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 (1952); (1969); (1951); (1962); (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. Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace C. W. Peale's Portraits of Washington Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture Mr. Peale's Museum

ArchivalResource: 19.5 Linear feet

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Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798. Papers, of the Randolph, Jefferson, Eppes, Nicholas and Kean families [manuscript] 1785-1865.

Title: Papers, of the Randolph, Jefferson, Eppes, Nicholas and Kean families [manuscript] 1785-1865.

The papers contain three letters from Jefferson and ten to him discussing the papers of Freneau and Bache, the French West Indies, the payment of debts, shipment of a polygraph to [Rubens?] Peale, the education of Francis Wayles Eppes and Maria Jefferson, health of family members and Maria's death, John Wayles Eppes' return to the Senate and Wilson Cary Nicholas's appointment as collector at Norfolk, a possible farm purchase by Hore Browse Trist, and a loan of $4000 to Jefferson to be repaid in slaves. The collection also contains an 1824 medical bill and a receipt for Confederate military documents. Correspondents include Charles Lewis Bankhead ][1788-1833], Elizabeth Eppes, John Wayles Eppes [1773-1823], Maria Jefferson Eppes [1778-1804], Robert Garlick Hill Kean [1828-1898], Wilson Cary Nicholas [1761-1820], Joseph Higbee, George Wythe Randolph [1818-1867], Martha (Jefferson) Randolph [1772-1836], Thomas Jefferson Randolph [1792-1875], Thomas Mann Randolph [1741-1793], and Thomas Ritchie [1778-1854].

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967079 View

Peale Family. Papers, [n.d.].

Title: Papers, [n.d.].

These papers include two pages by Rubens Peale concerning landscapes, a notebook by Rembrandt Peale relating to the portrait of Washington, and a commonplace and recipe book, with sketches of gas lights.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644688 View

Sellers family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive), 1675-1928

Title: Sellers family papers, 1675-1928 (inclusive) 1675-1928

Correspondence among members of the Sellers and Peale families, with special emphasis on the Sellerses, ca. 1789-1860. Topics include such family matters as travel, household expenses, children, deaths and funerals, social and cultural life in Philadelphia, with some doggerel verses. There are also letters regarding patents, inventions, and the Sellers' businesses. Principal correspondents include: Coleman Sellers (1781-1834) and his wife Sophonisba Angusciola Peale (1786-1859), and their children Anna (1824-1908), Coleman (1827-1907), and George Escol (1808-1899); also Ann Sellers (b. 1785), Hannah Sellers and her husband Peter Hill (d. 1857); Mrs. Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909); Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman Sellers (1751-1832); and the following members of the Peale family: Charles Willson, Raphaelle, Rembrandt,Franklin, Charles Linnaeus, Rubens, and Titian Ramsay Peale.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, Ca. 1500 items.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.50-ead.xml View

Letter from James C. Copper to Mary Jane Peale

Title: Letter from James C. Copper to Mary Jane Peale

Letter concerning Copper's gift to Peale of Rembrandt Peale's painting "Rubens Peale with a Geranium," which had been presented to Copper when it was painted. The letter has been annotated by Mary Jane Peale and is accompanied by the Charles Willson Peale Papers' transcript.

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Rubens Peale letterbooks, 1802-1814, 1824, Bulk, 1802-1814, 1802-1824

Title: Rubens Peale letterbooks, 1802-1814, 1824 Bulk, 1802-1814 1802-1824

These are chiefly letters to members of his family on the business of the museums in Philadelphia, New York, and London. The letters of 1824 are press copies, chiefly to Charles Willson Peale and Benjamin Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Volume(s), 2 volumes, 77 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.12ab-ead.xml View

Patterson family. Patterson-Lord papers, [ca. 1809]-1876.

Title: Patterson-Lord papers, [ca. 1809]-1876.

This collection of Robert Patterson family papers is composed primarily of the letters of Robert Maskell Patterson, but includes some of the business and personal papers of his father, Robert, and a series of letters written from Europe in 1855 by Helen Patterson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523551 View

Bolling, Robert B., fl. 1843,. Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Title: Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Papers of the Cabell and related Bolling families contain slave censuses from "Bolling Hall" and "Pocahontas," Goochland County, Va. Individual topics include the War of 1812, a tedious legal case involving Judge Tucker, construction of a mill and a barn, "Soldier's Joy," "Corotoman," "Edgewood," the Female Seminary, Lynchburg, transporting hired slaves to Richmond, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company and company, tobacco prices, a Federal raid near Farmville in 1864, an attempted polygraph purchase, the building of a boat to transport wheat, Joseph C. Cabell's interest in running for office, and a "delicate chemical apparatus," possibly for the Universityof Virignia. The collection also contains account books, including one for tobacco sales, 1791-1792 and 1827-1845 that also contains miscellaneous accounts for Thomas Eston Randolph. Account book, ledger, memoranda book, and slave censuses for the Bolling family, 1796-1866, contain plantation records including crop lists, expenses, manager's wages, midwife accounts, slave hires and sales, and rations and clothing allotments for field hands with the note "All lost when freedom came." Estate papers of William C. R. Newburn, William Bolling administrator, 1835-1836, pertain to the sale of Newbern's slaves and includes names of slaves, purchasers and prices. There are also lists of taxable property, 1844 and 1862 that mention slaves; a note on the death of Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell and slave girl from diphtheria in 1862; an 1814 marriage indenture of William Newburn and Sarah Randolph, listing slaves; and an Hungarian Fund one dollar note, 1852. Correspondents and recipients include Robert B. Bolling, William Bolling, Arthur S. Brockenbrough, John Grattan Cabaell, Joseph C. Cabell, Nathaniel F. Cabell, Patrick H. Cabell, Sally F. Cabell, William D. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dr. George Callaway, John Coalter John Hartwell Cocke, Isaac A. Coles, James Dinsmore, Thomas Dobson, G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Jacques Flouest, William J. Lewis, John Neilson, Reubens Peale, Charles Perros, C. C. Read, James Scruggs, P. G. Tucker, and the Rev. R. H. Wilmer.

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Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865. Letterbooks, 1802-1814, 1824.

Title: Letterbooks, 1802-1814, 1824.

These are chiefly letters to members of his family on the business of the museums in Philadelphia, New York, and London. The letters of 1824 are press copies, chiefly to Charles Willson Peale and Benjamin Franklin Peale about the Baltimore museum.

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