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Pennsylvania 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa 19107 2000 Contents THE Penns ylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXV THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 2000 CONTENTS ARTICLES Page From "Frontierto Center City: The Evolution of the Neighborhood of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania George E. Thomas 7 "The Fireproof':The Society's Building Susan Stitt 43 Working a "GoldMine": Scholars of Early America and the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania John K. Alexander 103 Evidence of Place: Resources Documenting the Philadelphia Area's ArchitecturalPast Jeffrey A. Cohen 145 Aimde Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices Tara Leigh Tappert 249 'The Greatest Woman Painter": Cecilia Beaux, Mazy Cassatt, and Issues of Female Fame Nancy Mowll Mathews 293 Under the Skin: ReconsideringCecilia Beaux andJohn Singer Sargent Sarah Burns 317 'Intricaciesand Interdependencies: Cecilia Beaux and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Jeanette M. Toohey 349 The Delicious Characterof Youth": Harold and Mildred Colton Sylvia Yount 375 "TheOnly Miss Beaux"; Photographsof Cecilia Beaux and Her Circle Cheryl Leibold 381 Between the Covers: An Artist Looks at the Sketchbooks of CeciliaBeaux Barbara Katus 391 The Oil Sketch and RepresentationistThought in the PhiladelohiaSchool of Painting Patrick Connors CONTENTS Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: A List of Works ofArt and and Archival Materials Cheryl Leibold 409 "A Bumpkin before the Bar" Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn and Class Anxiety in PostrevolutionaryPhiladelphia Mark Decker 469 The American Mission of Citizen Pierre-AugusteAdet: Revolutionary Chemistry and Diplomacy in the Early Republic Michael F. Conlin 489 "'e Are What We Make of Ourselves": Abraham Reeser Home and the Education of Pennsylvania Germans William W. Donner 333 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS The Phoenix Tower and the Struggling CentennialExhibition of 1876: A Tale of What Might Have Been Thomas R. Winpenny 547 EDITORIALS Ian M. G. Quimby 5,245 INTRODUCTION Cheryl Leibold and Tara Leigh Tappert 247 BOOK REVIEWS 203, 419, 557 INDEX Conrad Woodall THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS Chairman COLLIN F. MCNEIL Vice Chairmen MICHAEL D. BENJAMIN GEORGE W. CONNELL WELD COXE Secretary SANDRA L. CADWALADER Treasurer STEPHEN P. MULLIN Councilors DEBORAH D. BISHOP HON. JAMES R. ROEBUCK MARY MAPLES DUNN LOUISA W. SELLERS SARAH BARRINGER GORDON THOMASJ. SUGRUE BARBARA L. GREENFIELD PAGE TALBOT NELSON G. HARRIS AUDREY C. TALLEY ELIZA COPE HARRISON WILLIAM G. WARDEN III JOHNJ. HASLErF I DANIELJ. WHELAN WILUAM L. HIRES JACK FRIEDLAND, Emeritus ROBERT H. LEEJR. BRUCE H. HOOPER, Emeritus HOwARD H. LEWIS DAVI W. MAXEY, Emeritus CHARLES E. MATHER III RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY, Emeritus CHARLES W. NICHOLS HARRISON M. WRIGHT, Emeritus MEYER P. POTAMKIN HON. 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SCHERER, Rights and Reproductions Coordinator Web-site LOUIS MEEHAN, Photographer RJCI-ARDJ. URBAN, Web-site Coordinator INDEX 2000 Abbot, W. W., and Edward G. Lengel, eds, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 7; book The Papers of George Washington; on, 206-8 Retirement Series. Volume 3:, September American Revolution, first generation after, 1798-April 1799, W.W. Abbot, book on, 565-67 ed.,Volume 4: April-December 1799, rev., American Society for Promoting and Propa- 435-37 gating Useful Knowledge, book on, 206-8 Abolition, perceptions of, 567 Amory, Harriet Sears, 322, 372 Abolitionism, Samuel P. Chase and, 225-26 Amory, Hugh, and David D. Hall, eds. A Acad6mie Colorossi, 359 History of the Book in America. Volume Academic Julian, 270 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic Academy of Natural History, 21, 36 World, rev., 569-71 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Anderson, Elijah, Code of the Streer De 47, 232 cency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Adams, John, 211-12, 218, 435-36, 437, 446, Inner Ciyi, rev., 594-96 492, 509-10, 516, 573 Anderson, James, 435, 436 Adams, John Quincy, 446 Anderson, Lar, portrait referenced, 412 Adams, Samuel, 492, 507 Andrew, A. Piatt: 290, 324, 341-42, 386; Adet, Pierre-Auguste, 489-520 (fig.) 342 African American Civil War Memorial, 230- Andrew, John A., 231 31 Andrews, Dee E., book review by, 565-67 African Americans: history, 118-19, 136-37, Anglicans, 116, 131 140-41; in Philadelphia, 594-95; book on, Annenberg, Leonore Rosenstiel, 420 568-69 Annenberg, Moses, book on, 419-21 African American women, book on, 452-53 Annenberg, Ronny Dunkleman, 420 African Lutheran Church, 14 Annenberg, Sadie Friedman, 419 Agee, James, 458 Annenberg, Walter, book on, 419-21 Alcot, Bronson, 566 Anshutz, Thomas, 402, 405 Alcott, Louisa May: 272; house museum of, Anthropology, museums and, 232 234, 235 Antietamn Campaigp, book on, 577-79 Alcott, May, 298 Appleby, Joyce, Inheriting the Revolution: Aldridge, Alfred Owen, cited, 208, 209 The First Generationof Americans, rev., Alexander, John K.:"Working 'A Gold Mine': 565-67 Scholars of Early America and the Manu- Architecture: Archives of University of Penn script Collections at the Historical Society sylvania, 186; Christian Science, book on, of Pennsylvania," 103-43; cited, 6, 126 456-58; drawings, evidence of place in, Alexander, William, "Lord Stirling," 216 185-93, (figs.), 187, 190; of Mount Allen, John L. cited, 583 Vernon, 425-31; Philadelphia, 145-201 Allen, Paul, 566 Arlington National Cemetery, 228 Allen, Richard, 218 Armstrong, Jack, 204 Allen, William, 179-80 Armstrong, William A., 192 Almshouse (Philadelphia), 11 Art: as historical record, 147-201; museum Alpert, Rebecca, book review by, 593-94 and history of, 232 American Academy of Music, 21, 23 Art Club, 30, 31, 35, 367; (fig.) 31 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 321 "Art Nouveau," 36 American Institute of Architects 149, 189 Arthur Mervn, by Charles Brockden Brown, American Museum of Natural History (New 449-87 York), 232 Artistic careers, women and, 249-91 American Philosophical Society: 43, 492-93, Artistic fame, competition of Cecilia Beaux 501, 503-6, 517, library of, 583; site of and Mary Cassatt, 293-316 Ashmead, Henry Graham, collection of, 173 Beardsley, Laura, 105 Assembly Hall of Historical Society of Penn- Beatty, Admiral, 333 sylvania, (figs.), 60-61, 63, 78, 94, 98, Beaux, Adolphe, 250-53,258 Astor, John Jacob, 566 Beaux, Alice Zepherine, 251,256 Athenaeum (Philadelphia), 22, 34, 43, 155, Beaux, Catherine, 323,325 168, 186, 191,194,198, 199; site of His- Beaux, Cecilia: 245-418; catalog of materials torical Society of Pennsylvania, 7 at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fie Atkins, Jonathan M., book review by, 453-54 Arts, 409-18; work of, (figs.), 253, 259, Atwater Kent Museum, 161 265, 283, 288, 289, 293-98, 302, 307, Audubon, John James, 566 311, 315, 340, 342, 343, 360, 362, 363, Austin, William, 515 366, 367, 369,373, 379, 381-89, 403-5 Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 492, 495, 498 Beaux, Cecilia Kent Leavitt, 250-52, 297 Bache, Sarah Franklin, 218 Beaux Drinker, Aimee Emesta, 249-91, 357, Bachmann,John, 180-81 365; (figs.), 252,265, 269, 281,286,365 Bacon, Henry, 229 Beaux, Edmund, 251,253; (fig.) 357 Bacon, Leonard, 270 Beaux, Ernesta, 323,325; (fig.) 279 Baer, George, 540 Beaux, Jean Adolphe, 250, 258, 297 Baer, Samuel, 542-43 Beckley, John, 492, 493, 498, 507 Bailey Stone, Cyrena, book on, 453-54 Beecher, Catharine, 566 Bailey Whitney, Louisa, 453 Bell, D. Sargent, collection, 167-68 Baird,John A.,Jr., book review by, 596-98 Bell, Whitfield J., Jr., Patriot Improvers: Bio- Balch, Edwin Swift, 270-71, 272, 275, 276, graphical Sketches of Members of the 393 American PhilosophicalSociety, Volume Balch, Thomas, 54 One: 1743 1768, rev., 206-8 Bald Eagle Valley Railroad, 581 Bellevue-Straford hotel, 32, 36 Baldwin Dalzsel, Lee,
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