![3731800] Union Canal Lottery. State of Pennsylvania. [1825 Pennsylvania lottery ticket]. N S. Kite](/pictures/thumb/3731800_1.jpg?v=1659980884)
The Union Canal Company was formed in 1811 with the merger of the Schuylkill & Susquehanna Navigation Company and Delaware and the Schuylkill Canal company..... Read More about Union Canal Lottery. State of Pennsylvania. [1825 Pennsylvania lottery ticket
![3731799] Lancaster Street Lottery, Authorized by Law of the State of Pennsylvania. [C....](/pictures/thumb/3731799_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
This lottery was authorized by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to improve the roads in Lancaster. The scheme began on 1797 and continued intermittently until..... Read More about Lancaster Street Lottery, Authorized by Law of the State of Pennsylvania. [C. 1797–1811 lottery...
![3731798] Bile’s Island Lottery, 1774. [Colonial New Jersey lottery ticket]. J. Campbell](/pictures/thumb/3731798_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
Rare. “This Ticket entitles the Bearer to such Prize as may be drawn against its Number, if demanded within nine Months after the Drawing is..... Read More about Bile’s Island Lottery, 1774. [Colonial New Jersey lottery ticket
![3731797] Harrisburgh Church Lottery. By Authority. [1802 Pennsylvania lottery ticket]. Adam Boyd](/pictures/thumb/3731797_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
The Harrisburg Church was organized in 1794. Worship was first held in the loft of the jailhouse, then in the local court-house. The General Assembly..... Read More about Harrisburgh Church Lottery. By Authority. [1802 Pennsylvania lottery ticket
![3731796] Protestant Episcopal Church Lottery. ... Borough of Lancaster [C. 1807 Pennsylvania...](/pictures/thumb/3731796_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
Signed by David R. Barton as Treasurer. Auction records erroneously date this ticket from the 1780s. On April 10, 1807, Pennsylvania Governor Thomas McKean approved..... Read More about Protestant Episcopal Church Lottery. ... Borough of Lancaster [C. 1807 Pennsylvania lottery ticket
![3731795] The Pettie’s-Island Mill and Cash Lottery… [1773 colonial Pennsylvania lottery...](/pictures/thumb/3731795_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
The lottery was for “disposing of a Mill and Land, on Pequea, in Lancaster County.” Monies raised by the scheme were also to be used..... Read More about The Pettie’s-Island Mill and Cash Lottery… [1773 colonial Pennsylvania lottery ticket
![3731794] [Alexander Hamilton:] Paterson Lottery. Lottery of the Society for Establishing Useful...](/pictures/thumb/3731794_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
The Society for Establishing Useful Manufacturers (SEUM) was the idea of Alexander Hamilton; yet another effort by him to help a young America build a...... Read More about Alexander Hamilton:] Paterson Lottery. Lottery of the Society for Establishing Useful...
![3731793] State of New-York Medical Science Lottery. [1815 New York lottery ticket]. Charles D....](/pictures/thumb/3731793_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
The text states that this was the “First Lottery for the PROMOTION OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.” Signed by Charles D. Cooper, the scheme of prizes printed..... Read More about State of New-York Medical Science Lottery. [1815 New York lottery ticket
![3731792] Mechanics’ Art Union. All Cash. [C. 1850s New York City lottery ticket with a TLS to...](/pictures/thumb/3731792_1.jpg?v=1659980883)
Possibly a New York City lottery ticket, with three attractive vignettes. Includes a 1962, one-page letter to historian Charles Coleman Sellers, from a lottery ticket..... Read More about Mechanics’ Art Union. All Cash. [C. 1850s New York City lottery ticket with a TLS to Charles...
![3731791] Providence and Worcester Road Lottery. [1825 Rhode Island lottery ticket]. Manager i. e....](/pictures/thumb/3731791_1.jpg?v=1659980882)
Tickets for this lottery were issued in Cumberland, Providence County. Signed by A. White Jr. [Providence:] John Miller, Printer, 1825. 2 x 5¾ inches. Near..... Read More about Providence and Worcester Road Lottery. [1825 Rhode Island lottery ticket
![3731789] New-Haven Lottery, For building a Bridge over East-River. [1780 Connecticut lottery...](/pictures/thumb/3731789_1.jpg?v=1659980882)
A rare eighteenth-century Connecticut lottery ticket. Signed by Henry Daggett. [New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1780]. 1½ x 3½ inches. Laid paper. Near fine..... Read More about New-Haven Lottery, For building a Bridge over East-River. [1780 Connecticut lottery ticket
![3732033] The Johnson Art Collection. An Open Letter to the Mayor and City Council. [with...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Thoughts on the housing and display of the John G. Johnson Collection of 1,200 European paintings bequeathed to the City of Philadelphia in 1917. A...... Read More about The Johnson Art Collection. An Open Letter to the Mayor and City Council. [with Author’s Typed...
A woman print collector discussing her own collection of Philadelphia scenes and architectural views. Includes some discussion of Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Birch, John Lewis..... Read More about A Paper read by Mrs. William B. Linn at The Print Club of Philadelphia May 11, 1936, During an...
Monograph on a collection of portraits of Osage Indians painted by artist Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770–1852) drawn and painted when the chiefs..... Read More about The St. Memin Indian Portraits
Exhibition includes paintings, jewelry, and silhouettes. Contemporary review of the exhibition from The Sun newspaper in Baltimore tipped-in opposite the title page. This copy with..... Read More about Catalogue of the Miniature Exhibition under the Auspices of The Maryland Society of the Colonial...
Check list of the paintings of American historical painter John Trumbull (1756–1843) kept by the artist himself. Edited and with an introduction by art historian..... Read More about An Early Check List of the Paintings of John Trumbull
Over 440 entries; with index. Artists include Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Anthony Lauck, Walter E. Baum, Charles Burchfield, Isabel Bishop, William Zorach, Ben Shahn, Chaim..... Read More about Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ... 1954...
425 entries; with index. Artists include Alexander Calder, Milton Avery, Yves Tanguy, Walter E. Baum, Paul Cadmus, Isabel Bishop, Gladys Rockmore Davis, William Zorach, Charles..... Read More about Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ......
Over 440 entries; with index. Artists include Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipchitz, Gladys Rockmore Davis, Walter E. Baum, Paul Cadmus, Isabel Bishop, William Zorach, Ben Shahn..... Read More about Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ......
Over 360 entries; with index. Artists include Harvey Dinnerstein, Walter E. Baum, Paul Cadmus, Pavel Tchelitchew, Isabel Bishop, William Zorach, George Grosz, Ben Shahn, Paul..... Read More about Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture ... 1950...
Over 400 entries; with index. “Popular Prize” ballot laid in. Artists include Morris Kantor, George Grosz, Guy Pene DuBois, Daniel Garber, Henry Varnum Poor, Charles..... Read More about Catalogue of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture…1940...
Over 550 entries; with index. Artists include Charles Burchfield, Walter E. Baum, Benton Spruance, Paul Cadmus, Violet Oakey, Fritz Eichenberg, Isabel Bishop, John W. McCoy..... Read More about The Fifty-First Annual International Exhibition, Water Colors Prints Drawings, presented by The...
Over 525 entries; with index. Artists inckude Charles Burchfield, Walter E. Baum, Benton Spruance, Paul Cadmus, Violet Oakey, Fritz Eichenberg, Isabel Bishop, Raoul Dufy, John..... Read More about Catalogue of the Fiftieth Annual International Exhibition, Water Colors Prints Drawings ... 1952...
Philadelphia Water Color Club and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters. Nearly 600 entries; with index. Artists include Charles Burchfield, Walter E. Baum, Peter Hurd..... Read More about Catalogue of the Forty-eighth Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the...
66 illustrations. Two indexes. Artists include Thornton Oakley, Alphaeus P. Cole, Helen Sewell, and Richard E. Bishop. Philadelphia: [The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]..... Read More about 1927 Catalogue] The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Annual...
