I've always wondered who owned the original of the photo of which I own a copy--now I know!

My authority for stating that Bob Wester found the original of this photo comes from the lot 208 description in the Money Tree's Mail Bid Sale 24, Part 1, November 18, 1995. I bought the copy from that sale. I attach a scan of the description for reference.

It seems as if the more we examine this photo, the more confused matters become.

Some of our readers may have discovered the Montroville Wilson Dickeson collection of archival material held at the University of Pennsylvania. While the collection appears to be entirely non-numismatic, it might be worth a look by someone researching Dr. Montroville Wilson Dickeson’s life.

The Montroville Wilson Dickeson Collection is a record of his expedition to the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys to investigate the origins and archaeology of the North American mound builders. Dickeson traveled the region from 1837 to 1844 pioneering in the use of trenches and cross-sections to excavate the sites. The collection consists of two catalogues of artifacts, one with journal entries, hand-drawn maps and plans, cross-section drawings, artifact drawings, and Dickeson's renderings that were used later in the creation of The Mississippi Panorama by John J. Egan.

Additional materials include photographs of sections of the panorama and of the artifacts displayed at The Centennial Exhibition, exhibition panels, and an advertising broadside for the Missisippi Panorama and Dickeson lectures. A group of doodles and some written data, including original labels, round out the collection. Materials which arrived with the collection but are not a part of it are plates from Dickeson's Numismatic Manual, plates from the Crania britannica, and a copy of C.S.Rafinesque's Lists of Mounds in North America which reflect some of Dickeson's other interests and publications.

Five copies of the advertising broadside for the Panorama "Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley" with "Scientific lectures on American Aerchiology" are placed in a folder in the map case. Other oversized plates taken from the Crania britannica and Dickeson's The American Numismatic Manual are with the oversize materials.