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Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827. Letterbooks, 1767-1827.

Title: Letterbooks, 1767-1827.

This collection contains copies of outgoing business and personal correspondence on a wide variety of topics with a great many persons. Subjects include events in Philadelphia, his museum and its exhibits, Peale's hopes for the museum's acquisition by the city or state, the exhumation and exhibition of the mastodon, construction and promotion of the polygraph, agricultural concerns (including the operation of his farm Belfield), natural history, and false teeth.

ArchivalResource: 18 v.

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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

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Charles Willson Peale letterbooks, 1767-1827, 1767-1827

Title: Charles Willson Peale letterbooks, 1767-1827 1767-1827

This collection contains copies of outgoing business and personal correspondence on a wide variety of topics with a great many persons. Subjects include events in Philadelphia, his museum and its exhibits, Peale's hopes for the museum's acquisition by the city or state, the exhumation and exhibition of the mastodon, construction and promotion of the polygraph, agricultural concerns (including the operation of his farm Belfield), natural history, and false teeth.

ArchivalResource: 18.0 Volume(s)

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