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1Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 8 May 1795 (Adams Papers)
In July 1786, American painter and naturalist Charles Willson Peale added a gallery of natural curiosities to his Philadelphia museum. His efforts to display specimens within their natural contexts, through the use of painted backdrops and “classed and arranged according to their several species,” set Peale’s museum apart from many European natural history collections and may...