Art, science, invention : conservation and the Peale-Sellers family

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The work Art, science, invention : conservation and the Peale-Sellers family represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Art, science, invention : conservation and the Peale-Sellers family

Title remainder

conservation and the Peale-Sellers family

Statement of responsibility

Renée Wolcott, editor

Contributor

• Wolcott, Renée, 1960-

Editor

• Wolcott, Renée, 1960-

Subject

• American Philosophical Society
• American Philosophical Society
• Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration
• Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration
• Archival materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia
• Archives
• Archives
• Library materials -- Conservation and restoration
• Library materials -- Conservation and restoration
• Library materials -- Conservation and restoration -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia
• Peale family
• Peale family
• Peale family -- Archives
• Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
• Sellers family
• Sellers family
• Sellers family -- Archives

Language

eng

Summary

The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the APS Library, is the world's largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent American Philosophical Society Museum exhibitions, Curious Revolutionaries and Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, included selected items from the collection. The conservation staff reviewed the selected items to ensure that they were stable enough to display for months without fading, discoloring, or suffering physical damage. When books or manuscripts could not be exhibited without conservation treatment, conservators repaired or stabilized them. Conservation of natural specimens and cultural artifacts is essential today, as it was for Charles Willson Peale when he opened his museum in Philosophical Hall. Renée Wolcott tells readers in her introduction, "As the owner of the nation's first natural history museum, Charles Willson Peale served as both curator and conservator, concerned with selecting specimens for exhibition and preserving them for future museum visitors. He was also his own archivist, saving letters, diaries, and museum records that passed through his family for generations before becoming enshrined in the APS Library. This book examines the materials Peale and his family have left us, considers their preservation challenges, and discusses the evolution of conservation care for archival collections. Case studies of conservation treatment for six historic Peale-related artifacts illustrate some of the ways in which today's conservators preserve the materials of the past for the sake of the future."--back cover

Member of

• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v.108, pt.1
• Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v.108, pt.1.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

025.8/40974811

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

Z701

LC item number

.A57 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge,

Series volume

volume 108, part 1