1. From the accession files of the Franklin Institute, n 519. The Franklin Institute traded n 519 with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where it received the accession number 1943-67-1. The photocopy of the original document is in the American Art office, object folder 1943-67-1. Mease was the author of numerous books on practical domestic life and knowledge, but is best known for his book The Picture of Philadelphia: Citing an Account of Its Origin, Increase and Improvements (Philadelphia: B. & T. Kite, 1811), a lengthy and comprehensive guide to the city of Philadelphia—its history, plan, government, commerce, manufactures, almshouses, educational institutions, and other establishments.
2. Letter #213, Letter Press III, Correspondence of Dalton Dorr, 1889 to 1893, Archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
3. Letter #190, June 1, 1892, Correspondence of Edwin AtLee Barber to Dalton Dorr, Archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
4. William H. Wahl to Dorr, Correspondence file, Franklin Institute, 1892, Archives of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
5. Registrar’s Files, correspondence dated May 24 and June 24, 1943. In exchange, the museum gave the Franklin Institute models for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century conveyances (a cab, a cabriole, and a prairie schooner), an eighteenth-century hand pump, and a modern bust of Benjamin Franklin.
6. It is noteworthy, however, that when Kimball accessioned the openwork fruit basket in 1943, he referred to it as porcelain.
7. “Found! Bonnin and Morris Porcelain,” Antiques 59, no. 2 (February 1951): 139.