American Philosophical Society selected records
name: label: Creator
content: American Philosophical Society
label: Names
content: Artists' Fund Society
label: Names
content: Artists' and Amateurs' Association (Philadelphia, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Columbian Society of Artists
label: Names
content: Society of Artists of the United States
label: Names
content: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
label: Names
content: Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860
label: Names
content: Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824
label: Names
content: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
label: Names
content: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
label: Names
content: Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815
label: Names
content: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
label: Names
content: Kane, John K. (John Kintzing), 1795-1858
label: Names
content: Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903
label: Names
content: Ord, George, 1781-1866
label: Names
content: Patterson, Robert M. (Robert Maskell), 1787-1854
label: Names
content: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
label: Names
content: Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870
label: Names
content: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860
label: Names
content: Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885
label: Names
content: Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
label: Names
content: Rosenthal, Albert, 1863-1939
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
label: Names
content: Vaughan, John, 1756-1841
label: Names
content: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820
topic: label: Topic
content: Portraits -- Private collections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Creator
content: American Philosophical Society
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The American Philosophical Society (founded 1743) is a scholarly organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.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.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Pennsylvania
label: Function
content: Learned institutions and societies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Microfilm reels (3 partial microfilm reels)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1784-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.amerphil
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P34 (fr. 199-213); P35 (fr. 164-259; 262-489); P36 (fr.1-10; 372-401); P37 (fr.588-870) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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).
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The American Philosophical Society holds the American Philosophical Society archives, 1743-1984.