 | Ad, Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum, 1829 Bob Perlongo, ed., "Early American Advertising," 1985, p. 94 |
 | D. Bowen, "The Elephant," Newburyport, MA, 1797, broadside; first elephant brought to U.S. The Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, Massachusetts 01970 |
 | Mammoth skeleton, tusks down, at Peale's Philadelphia Museum, 1821, drawing Charles Coleman Sellers, "Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art," (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10110, 1980) p. 145 |
 | Peale Museum catalogue, 1796 The American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth St, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387 |
 | Peale Museum ticket, showing new-born critters, 1788 Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale," (New York: Scribner's, 1969) |
 | Charles Willson Peale, "The Artist in His Museum," 1822, self-portrait, inviting us in, oil on canvas, 103 3/4 x 79 7/8" (263.5 x 202.9 cm) Copyright The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 118 N. Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102. The George W.Elkins Collection. All rights reserved. |
 | Alexander Lawson, bird plates, Peale Museum, 1811, from museum drawings of specimens from Lewis and Clark expedition The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 |
 | White-headed or bald eagle, Peale Museum Copyright holder unknown. In Charles Coleman Sellers, "Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art," (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10110, 1980) p. 89. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
 | Jaws of mastodon in Peale's museum, 1826 John Godman, "American Natural History," 1826. New York Public Library, Room 315, General Research Division, Fifth Ave and 42nd St, New York, NY 10018-2788 |
 | Mastodon Skeleton, Rembrandt Peale's Baltimore Museum, 1836, lithograph Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St, Baltimore, MD 21201-4674 |
 | Mongoose with classical ruins, France, 1765 Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, "Histoire Naturelle," 1765; reprint Philippe Gonin, Paris, FR, 1939 |
 | Mammoth of New-York, 1802, exhibited in England, engraved for Rembrandt Peale The Mammoth of New-York Exhibition, 1802 |
 | Model of Chinese woman's foot and leg, with silk shoe, Peale Museum, 1797 Copyright holder unknown. Charles Coleman Sellers, "Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art," (W. W. Norton & Co, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10110, 1980) p. 35. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. |
 | Broadside for Peale's "mammoth" at Philadelphia Museum, c. 1802
The American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth St, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387. In Charles Coleman Sellers, "Charles Willson Peale," (New York: Scribner's, 1969) |
 | Antediluvian giants from Kircher, "Mundus Subterraneus," 1664 Athanasius Kircher, "Mundus Subterraneus," 1664, t. II, p. 59. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Viale Castro Pretorio 105, 00185 Roma, IT |
 | John Filson, map of Kentucky showing Big Bone Lick, 1784, detail Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540. LC Control No. 99441724 |
 | Thighbone, tusk and grinder of American Incognitum Columbian Magazine, 1786 |
 | Shells collected by Titian Ramsay Peale II, Peale Museum
Copyright Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19103. All rights reserved. |
 | Broadside for Albert Koch's "Missourium Theristrocaulodon" in Dublin, IR, c. 1843 Paul Semonin, "American Monster" (New York: New York University Press, 2000) p. 383 |
 | Titian Ramsay Peale II, Butterfly mounts, Peale Museum Copyright Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19103. All rights reserved. |
 | Philosophical Hall, home of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, built 1786-89 Copyright holder unknown. The American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth St, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387. |
 | Fossilized bird's nest, Peale Museum, before 1825 Copyright Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19103. All rights reserved. |
 | "A View of The Natural Bridge in Virginia," 1787, drawing Columbian Magazine, 1787 |
 | Christian Gullager, America as exceptional: clothed, she awakens nude Europe, as war and want retreat in response, 1790, engraving Massachusetts Magazine, 1790 |
 | Grizzly bear claws, Plains Indian necklace, Peale Museum Copyright holder unknown. The Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. |
 | Plains Indian hunting shirt worn by William Clark on his expedition, Peale Museum, c. 1805 Copyright holder unknown. In Charles Coleman Sellers, "Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art," (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10110, 1980) p. 35 |
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