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See also: Charles Grier Sellers
Charles Coleman Sellers (March 16, 1903 Overbrook, Pennsylvania - January 31, 1980 Sydney, Australia) was an American historian, and librarian.[1]
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Life
He was the great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale.[2] He graduated from Haverford College from Harvard University, with an MA in 1926, and from Temple University with a Ph.D. in 1957.
From 1937 to 1949 he was a librarian at Wesleyan University. He was curator of the Dickinsoniana collection and librarian at Dickinson College. He retired in 1979.[3] He helped with an exhibition of Peale's work at the Metropolitan Museum.[4]
On October 6, 1932, he had married Helen Earle Gilbert (died February 1951). On June 12, 1952, he married Barbara S. Roberts. His papers are held at the American Philosophical Society,[5] and the Smithsonian Institution.[6]
Awards
- 1970 Bancroft Prize
Works
- Mr. Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the first popular museum of natural science and art. W. W. Norton & Company. 1980. ISBN 9780393057003. http://books.google.com/books?id=zp7rpturXQcC&pg=PP1&dq=Charles+Sellers&lr=&cd=27#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Lorenzo Dow: The Bearer of the Word Minton, Balch & company, 1928
- Bennedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior Milton, Balch & Company, 1930
- Theophilus the Battle-axe Press of Patterson & White co., 1930
- Portraits and miniatures by Charles Willson Peale American Philosophical Society, 1952
- Benjamin Franklin in portraiture. Yale University Press. 1962. ISBN 9780300008937.
- Charles Willson Peale Scribner, 1969
- Dickinson College: a history Wesleyan University Press, 1973
- Patience Wright, American artist and spy in George III's London. Wesleyan University Press. 1976. ISBN 9780819550019.
References
- ^ "Charles C. Sellers, 79, Wrote Peale Biography". The New York Times. February 7, 1980. http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50A15FB345D11728DDDAE0894DA405B8084F1D3.
- ^ http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31.8c-ead.xml;query=;brand=default
- ^ http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/s/ed_sellersCC.html
- ^ GRACE GLUECK (June 10, 1983). "MET MUSEUM SALUTES CHARLES W. PEALE, RENAISSANCE YANKEE". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/arts/met-museum-salutes-charles-w-peale-renaissance-yankee.html?&pagewanted=2.
- ^ http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.3-ead.xml;query=;brand=default
- ^ http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&uri=full=3100001~!212866~!0
External links
Categories:- American librarians
- Haverford College alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Temple University alumni
- Wesleyan University people
- 1903 births
- 1980 deaths
- Peale family
- American historian stubs
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