We are at Portland Oregon in the lewis and clark special collections per in we are going to see a range of collections from our lewis and clarke collection, including material representative of the times of the types of things they brought with them. Contemporary material that informs their decisions and the type of expedition they took you we will see contemporary accounts of the expedition created immediately after their returns to meet returns to washington. We going to see material that reflects on the expedition and romanticizes the events. I think they show a developing relationship to americans of the west. We start with material that reflects the nature of adventuring and the unknown from the early 19th and even 18thcentury and then move forward once the west was beginning to be known into a andar a more scientific knowledgebased understanding. We are going to learn about the traveling library that they took along with them. Then we are going to talk to associate head of specia
Leaders, military officers, explorers, and scientists. Up next on American History tvs, american artifacts we build it gallery to see a selection of works by Charles Willson peale. Karie diethorn. Im with the National Park service in philadelphia. I oversee a large collection of artifacts here. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a historic building, part of the Independence National historical park. 1824,as finished in literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior, when you come to see it, you will see how it looked ran no, brandnew. Inside we have the fine arts exhibit to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the worldly revolution belt. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures was painted by peel, of philadelphia Charles Willson peale of philadelphia. Wereof the pictures purchased b
American artifacts, we visit the gallery to learn about a selection of works by Charles Willson peale. Karie im karie diethorn. I am the chief curator. I oversee a large collection of artifacts here. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a historic building, part of the Independence National historical park. This was finished in 1824, literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior. When you come to see it, you will see how it looked brandnew in 1824. Inside we have the fine arts exhibit to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the world that the revolutionists built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Willson peale of philadelphia. Philadelphia artist who had his own museum in the city. The museum was so popular that in the middle of the 19th century, many of
Im kariehorn diethorn. I am the chief curator at the Independence National park, the National Park service in philadelphia. I oversee a large collection of Museum Artifacts here, almost 4 million of them. We are here at the second bank of the United States, a Historic Building that is part of the Independence National historical park. The second bank of the United States, which was finished in 1824, was literally the fort knox of its day. The building has been restored on the exterior, so when you come to see us you will see how , it looked brandnew. Exhibits the fine arts from the early 19th century to tell the story of what it was like to live in 18th century america, the world that those people knew and the worldly world that the revolution built. The portrait collection at Independence National historical park is a very, very old one. The bulk of our collection, 94 pictures, was painted by Charles Wilson peel, a Philadelphia Artist who had a museum here in the city. The museum was
It is quite a big mural. It shows lewis and clark and the lewis and clark expedition. I think that is the caption on it. It shows clark well, we think of him as stolid and stoic and basically simple. I dont mean intellectually challenged, but just as an uncomplicated individual. I think that is the understanding we have all been handed down. If we thought of the more complex of the two, we would probably vote for Meriwether Lewis, who committed suicide in 1809. After you are familiar with what i have to present, you might vote for clark because until now, we have not known about him. I want to talk about how i came upon this information. I am a lawyer and i have done research into the history of st. Charles, which is my birthplace, too. I wrote a book in 1991, 200 years of faith a history of st. Charles parish. What i loved about that the chance i had researched the spanish archives because at that time, st. Charles was a, you know years before the Louisiana Purchase it was part of the