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Dr. and Mrs. William H. Gerdts

he: 1929 - 2020; she: born 1937

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Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Founder's Medal (reverse), struck c. 2005, silver, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.129.b

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Founder's Medal (reverse)

Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis · struck c. 2005 · silver ·  Accession ID  2018.44.129.b

Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Founder's Medal (obverse), struck c. 2005, silver, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.129.a

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Founder's Medal (obverse)

Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis · struck c. 2005 · silver ·  Accession ID  2018.44.129.a

Claude Raguet Hirst, Queens of the Garden, 1884, black crayon on wove paper, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.52

Queens of the Garden

Claude Raguet Hirst · 1884 · black crayon on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.52

British 18th Century, London Magazine, The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1761, engraving on laid paper, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.49

The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania

British 18th Century, London Magazine · 1761 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.49

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The Picture of Philadelphia, Giving an Account of its Origin, Increase and Improvements in Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, Commerce and Revenue. With a Compendious View of its Societies, Literary, Benevolent, Patriotic, & Religious. Its Police – the Public Buildings – the Prison and Penetentiary System – Institutions, Monied and Civil-Museum

James Mease M.D., Thomas Birch, Samuel Seymour, B. & T. Kite · 1881 · bound volume with one engraving in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.102

British 19th Century, Portrait of a Man, 19th century, watercolor on ivory paper in metal locket, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2018.44.70

Portrait of a Man

British 19th Century · 19th century · watercolor on ivory paper in metal locket ·  Accession ID  2018.44.70

Various Artists, Robert Crumb, Greg Irons, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Larry Welz, Richard Carse, Jay Lynch, Hak Vogrin, Gill Smitherman, Kay Rudin, S. Clay Wilson, Andy Martin, Peter Almasy, The Print Mint, Inc., Yellow Dog #13 / 14, 1969, 52-page paperback bound volume with half-tone and offset lithograph illustrations in black and cover in full color, Gift of William and Abigail Gerdts, 2014.126.159

Yellow Dog #13 / 14

Various Artists, Robert Crumb, Greg Irons, Jim Osborne, Ronald Lipking, Larry Welz, Richard Carse, Jay Lynch, Hak Vogrin, Gill Smitherman, Kay Rudin, S. Clay Wilson, Andy Martin, Peter Almasy, The Print Mint, Inc. · 1969 · 52-page paperback bound volume with half-tone and offset lithograph illustrations in black and cover in full color ·  Accession ID  2014.126.159

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Christian Armour

Eliza Craufurd Ball, Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., Charles Scribner & Company · 1886 · bound volume with fifteen chromolithographs on heavy wove paper ·  Accession ID  2018.44.98

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Pearls of American Poetry

Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson, Thomas Sinclair, A. Brett & Company, Wiley and Putnam · 1853 · bound volume with chromolithographs throughout ·  Accession ID  2018.44.38

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The Comedies of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, Harper and Brothers, Edwin Austin Abbey · 1899 · four bound volumes with one hundered and thirty-one photogravures ·  Accession ID  2018.44.122.1-4