Wylie, Samuel B. (Samuel Brown), 1773-1852 Search this
Extent:
2 Reels (ca. 150 items (on 2 partial microfilm reels))
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Reels
Date:
1760-1935
Scope and Contents:
Letters, mainly from artists, and documents selected from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's miscellaneous manuscript collection (Society Collection). Letters are to various people; 46 of them are to Townsend Ward and a few are to John A. McAllister, photographer. Many of the letters refer to paintings, portraits, commissions, and awards.
Writers of letters include: Edwin Austin Abbey, Mary Gertrude Abbey, F.W. Bayley, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Joseph Ceracchi, John Gadsby Chapman, John Cheney, James Claypool, James Cox, F.O.C. Darley, Joseph Delaplaine, Humphrey Donnehue, William Dunlap, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, S. Eliot, Charles Fevret De Saint-Memin, Charles Dana Gibson, Harold Edgar Gillingham, Horatio Greenough, George Harding, Levi Hollingsworth, William Morris Hunt, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, Horatio Gates Jones, James Reid Lambdin, Will Hicok Low, Edward Dalton Marchant, William Henry Moody, John Neagle, Albert Newsam, Bass Otis, Thomas Paine, Charles Willson Peale, Franklin Peale, James Peale, Jr., Mary Jane Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Titian Ramsay Peale, Joseph Pennell, Clement Penrose, Robert Piggot, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Trost Richards, Thomas Prichard Rossiter, Peter Frederick Rothermel, William Rush, John Sartain, Stephen Alonzo Schooff (to Townsend Ward), Russell Smith, Charles H. Stephens, Thomas Sully, Philip Syng, John Vanderlyn, N.P. Willis, Alexander Wilson and Patience Wright.
Among the recipients of letters are Archibald Alexander, David S. Brown, William Belcher, Col. Brodhead, B. Burrell, Carey & Hart, Edward L. Carey, Henry C. Carey, Miss Clarke, Mr. Curren, Joseph Delaplaine, John Dickinson, Dr. Dickson, William Dillwyn, William Duane, James B. Elliott, Mrs. Langdon Elwyn, Mantle(?) Fielding, John W. Francis, Charles P. Hayes, David Hosack, Mr. Howell, Major William Jackson, Horatio Gates Jones, John W. Jordan, H.H. Kjmball, C.G. Leland, Joseph Leidy, J.B. Lippincott, George Livermore, James Madison, J. Hill Martin, John McAllister, James McMurtrie, James Monaghan, J. Murray, Albert Cook Myers, Rebecca and Isabella Nathans, John Neagle, C.S. Ogden, John Paca, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, David Rittenhouse, Albert Rosenthal, John Sartain, Jacob Schreiner, James Shrigley, James Ross Snowden, W.D. Snyder, Dr. Sommerville, J.C. Stanbridge, F.D. Stone, Henry Troth, Mr. Vaux, Townsend Ward, William Hill Wells, G.M. Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Henry J. Williams, and Samuel B. Wylie.
Other items include a sonnet of S.T. Coleridge by Washington Allston; business card of Pennel Beale; catalog of medals and coins of silver in the possession of Hon. John Smith compiled by Du Simitière, 1772; printed address by Mrs. John C. Montgomery soliciting donations for the repair of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, destroyed by fire, 1845; William Morris Hunt's admission ticket to Peale's Museum, 1836, stating his height and weight; description of objects on display at the Peale Museum, 1820; a photograph and business card of Benjamin Randolph; invitations and notes to Gilbert Stuart; typescript by Frank H. Taylor on lithography, 1923; subscription book for engravings of paintings by John Trumbull; and a page from John Archibald Woodside's daybook, 1802-1803.
Provenance:
Microfilmed by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for the Archives of American Art, 1955.
Restrictions:
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Remains of domestic animals discovered among Post-Pleiocene fossils in South Carolina. By Francis S. Holmes... Also, extracts from a paper by Professor Leidy ... and a letter by Professor Agassiz
Author:
Holmes, F. S (Francis Simmons) 1815-1882 Search this
Folder 7 Leidy, Joseph (1823-1891). Includes an obituary; articles on the erection of a commemorative statue; articles and biographical sketches for the centenary of his birth; and a clipping on the publication of his "Life and Letters," 1907-1936, and...
Container:
Box 9 of 17
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7320, National Museum of Natural History. Division of Mammals, Biographical File
Geological sketch of the estuary and fresh water deposit forming the Bad Lands of Judith River with some remarks upon the surrounding formations by F.V. Hayden ; read before the American Philosophical Society, March 4th, 1859 ; extinct vertebrata from the Judith River, and great lignite formations of Nebraska, by Joseph Leidy ; from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Title:
Extinct vertebrata from the Judith River, and great lignite formations of Nebraska
Author:
Hayden, F. V (Ferdinand Vandeveer),) 1829-1887 Search this
Report on the geological survey of the state of Wisconsin. Volume 1 / James Hall, on general geology and palæontology, and J.D. Whitney, on the upper Mississippi lead region
Title:
Report on the geological survey of Wisconsin
Wisconsin geological survey DSI
Issuing body:
Wisconsin Commissioners of the Geological, Mineralogical, and Agricultural Survey Search this
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota : and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Territory : made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department / by David Dale Owen
Title:
Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, by authority of Congress
Owen's Geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
Illustrations to the geological report of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
Description of vertebrate remains, chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina / by Joseph Leidy. Description of a collection of fossils, made by doctor Antonio Raimondi in Peru / by Wm. M. Gabb
Address on the life and work of Joseph Leidy, M.D. : President of the Academy of Natural Sciences : Professsor of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania / by Henry C. Chapman
Title:
Life and work of Joseph Leidy, M. D
Author:
Chapman, Henry C (Henry Cadwalader) 1845-1909 Search this
