Mr. Peale's Museum

Mr. Peale's Museum
Author: Charles Coleman Sellers
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393057003

Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art.

Rochester

Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh Parker
Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1884
Genre: Art museums
ISBN:

Jay's Journal of Anomalies

Jay's Journal of Anomalies
Author: Ricky Jay
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781593720001

This excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments includes armless calligraphers, mathematical dogs, tightrope-walking fleas and assorted quacks, flimflammers and charlatans of spectacle.