Pierre Eugène Du Simitière papers
name: label: Creator
content: Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, ca. 1736-1784
place: label: Place
content: United States -- History -- 18th century
topic: label: Occupation
content: Museum curators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting -- 18th century -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Naturalism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming, 1955, by the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 1785 Du Simitière's effects were sold at auction, resulting in his library being scattered. Most of the manuscripts were purchased by the Library Company of Philadelphia. The Library of Congress later acquired some others. The whereabouts of some material is still uncertain.
creator: label: Creator
content: Du Simitière, Pierre Eugène, ca. 1736-1784
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter, curator and naturalist; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Geneva, Switzerland. Came to America in 1765 after spending several years in the West Indies collecting natural history specimens. Elected curator, 1768, of the American Philosophical Society, and set up a natural history museum. He collected Revolutionary War ephemera and literature.
function: label: Function
content: Natural history museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Volumes ((on 3 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1560-1786
label: Date
content: bulk 1721-1786
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.dusipier
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels P7 (fr. 128-913), P8 (fr. 1-854) & P9 (fr. 1-750) available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: A descriptive catalogue of the Du Simitière papers in the Library Company of Philadelphia is available on microfilm reel P25 (fr. 672-774).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Papers relating to natural history and Du Simitière's collection of specimens; material collected on the history of the West Indies and Colonial American affairs in New England, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, including the Lancaster Treaty, 1744, and Indian treaties, 1721-1756; letters, 1560-1781; journals, pamphlets and extracts; a broadside of the Du Simitière sale, 1785; drawings and portraits of American legislators and soldiers by Du Simitière; and leaves of a medieval illuminated manuscript.