Postcards from Longwood Gardens, the Brandywine River Museum and the Battle of Brandywine are all contained in this pictorial history book. Mills galore, including ones of the du Pont empire, were all constructed along the Brandywine. Along the Brandywine River tells the story of the historic Brandywine River from its origins in Chester County to […]
Archives
Brandywine Boy
by Adrian R. Morrison
A poignant memoir describing the social history, adventures, friendships, and events that shaped the life of a boy growing up in the mid-twentieth century on a small farm in the Brandywine Valley, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Brandywine Boy provides a glimpse of boyhood in simpler times, before the distractions of television, video games and social media. Growing […]
Canonballs, Anecdotes &
Artifacts
The Wonderful Life
of Christian Sanderson
Featuring Andrew Wyeth, Karl J. Kuerner, and Ann Wyeth McCoy; Archaeo pictures presents a Karen Kuder Film that provides a peek into Sanderson’s collection. The possessions such a man leaves behind upon his death could fill a museum.
Chris
A Biography of
Christian C. Sanderson
by Thomas R. Thompson
This biography provides a detailed account of the lives of Chris and his mother. Four hundred eight pages of text and photographs and as one reader wrote after the original publication in 1973 “when I finished page 408, it seemed much like losing a life-long friend.”
Lafayette’s Gold
The Lost Brandywine Treasure
by Gene Pisasale
Set in the beautiful Brandywine Valley outside Philadelphia, “Lafayette’s Gold” is a mystery thriller about the Battle of the Brandywine. The story highlights George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette while weaving in a modern day mystery involving shady antiquities dealers and hidden treasure.
Map
of
Historical Chester County
$95 unframed, includes certificate of authentication. Map measures 24″ x 26″. Compiled by Christian C. Sanderson; Illustrated by Andrew Wyeth. This map is one of the original 1937 edition of 5,750 printed by Beck Engraving Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1897 and inventor of the four-color lithographic process. The original pencil drawing hangs in […]
Mug
I’m not a hoarder.
I am a collector.
This whimsical mug carries the Sanderson Museum logo on one side and on the other side pokes fun at hoarders vs. collectors.
Plate, “The Hunter”
by Andrew Wyeth
Limited Edition, The Saturday Evening Post
Produced by Ridgewood Fine China in 1974 as a collector’s plate for The Saturday Evening Post. It features The Hunter, a 1943 painting by Andrew Wyeth that appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post issue of October 16, 1943. Chris posed as the hunter in this scene at Lafayette’s headquarters in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, The original […]
September 11, 1777: Washington’s Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia
by Bruce Mowday
United States history almost changed on September 11, 1777, as George Washington almost dies. Washington’s army also almost ceased to exist. This is the first book on the historic American Revolution battle that was the main battle of the Philadelphia Campaign. This was Lafayette’s first battle and the Continental Congress fled Philadelphia after the battle.
The Christian Sanderson Museum
Tom Thompson Remembers
by Gene Pisasale
This museum, located in scenic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is dedicated to the memory of one man – Chris Sanderson, a musician, lecturer and historian who chronicled our heritage. Upon Chris’s death, his friend Tom Thompson was given the task of sorting through the more than 18,000 artifacts in Chris’s collection. Thompson along with Andrew Wyeth […]
The Land of Truth & Phantasy
by Richard McLellan
A biographic novel of the Kuerner family in Chadds Ford, PA. The Kuerner (Ring) Farm is where Andrew Wyeth, the renowned American artist, painted nearly one thousand works. This work contains sixteen color illustrations including several paintings by Karl J. Kuerner and Andrew Wyeth.