The microfilmed American Philosophical Society selected records contain art related letters; committee reports; registrar's and curators' records; pamphlets; and exhibition catalogs from the archives of the American Philosophical Society. Many of the letters are to the Society's secretary and librarian John Vaughan; a few are to the Society's presidents Thomas Jefferson and Peter S. Du Ponceau, and officials John K. Kane and J. Peter Lesley. Among the correspondents are Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Jacob Perkins, Philip Tidyman, Charles B. Lawrence, John Trumbull, Thomas Sully, Joseph Delaplaine, Robert Patterson, John Quincy Adams, Titian Ramsay Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Victor G. Audubon, and Robert Fulton.
Also included are copies of the registrar's cards for portraits and busts owned by the Society, arranged alphabetically by sitter; "Preliminary Notes, Biographical Sketches, and Memoranda chronologically arranged, for insertion in the Curator's Catalog of Portraits, Busts, and Bas-Reliefs in the Collection of the American Philosophical Society. Illustrated by photographs taken from the originals by Mrs. Julius A. Sachese, member APS"; circa 25 exhibition catalogs and pamphlets (1811-1840) for exhibitions of the Society of Artists of the United States, Columbian Society of Artists, Artists' Fund Society, Artists' and Amateurs' Association, and for works by Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Joseph Delaplaine, and others; and newspaper clippings (1917) about the controversy surrounding portraits by Albert Rosenthal hung in Independence Hall (reel P36, frames 372-401).
Biographical / Historical:
The American Philosophical Society (founded 1743) is a scholarly organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society "promotes useful knowledge" through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
Related Materials:
The American Philosophical Society holds the American Philosophical Society archives, 1743-1984.
Provenance:
Microfilmed for the Archives of American Art, 1955. The letters are mainly American Philosophical Society records, but many were pulled from ASP's Misc. Mss. and various other collections, and microfilmed in no apparent order. Descriptive cards microfilmed with each letter indicate location of originals.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Topic:
Portraits -- Private collections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Search this
Reglas de orthographia, diccionario, y arte del idioma othomi breve instruccion para los principiantes que dictò el l. d. Luis de Neve, y Molina, cathedratico proprietario de dicho idioma en el Real, y pontificio colegio seminario, examinador synodal, e interprete de el Tribunal de fè en el provisorato de indios de este arzobispado, y capellan del Hospital real de esta corte. Dedicalo al gloriosissimo señor san Joseph, padre putativo del verbo eterno, y bajo su proteccion lo saca à luz
Grammar of the language of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians by David Zeisberger. Tr. from the German manuscript of the author by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. With a preface and notes by the translator .
A short description of the province of New Sweden. Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America. Compiled from the relations and writings of persons worthy of credit, and adorned with maps and plates. By Thomas Campanius Holm. Translated from the Swedish, for the Historical society of Pennsylvania. With notes. By Peter S. Du Ponceau
Title:
Description of the province of New Sweden
Author:
Holm, Thomas Campanius approximately 1670-1702 Search this
Essays on American silk, and the best means of rendering it a source of individual and national wealth, with directions to farmers for raising silk worms. By John d'Homergue ... and Peter Stephen Duponceau ..
Essays on American silk, and the best means of rendering it a source of individual and national wealth, with directions to farmers for raising silk worms. By John d'Homergue ... and Peter Stephen Duponceau ..
