Cover of Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum

Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and Fall of Peale's Museum

by Lee Alan Dugatkin

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In 1786, Charles Willson Peale created the most important, and most famous, museum in Revolutionary-era America. A fusion of natural history and art, Peale's Philadelphia Muse…