Charles Coleman Sellers (March 16, 1903 Overbrook, Pennsylvania - January 31, 1980 Sydney, Australia) was an American historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, and librarian

Librarian

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Life

He was the great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale was an American painter, soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, as well as establishing one of the first museums....

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He graduated from Haverford College

Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia...

 from Harvard University

Harvard University

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, with an MA in 1926, and from Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 with a Ph.D. in 1957.

From 1937 to 1949 he was a librarian at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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He was curator of the Dickinsoniana collection and librarian at Dickinson College

Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...

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He retired in 1979.
He helped with an exhibition of Peale's work at the Metropolitan Museum.

On October 6, 1932, he had married Helen Earle Gilbert (died February 1951).
On June 12, 1952, he married Barbara S. Roberts.
His papers are held at the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

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, and the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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Works

• Lorenzo Dow: The Bearer of the Word Minton, Balch & company, 1928
• Bennedict Arnold: The Proud Warrior Milton, Balch & Company, 1930
• Theophilus the Battle-axe Press of Patterson & White co., 1930
• Portraits and miniatures by Charles Willson Peale American Philosophical Society, 1952
• Charles Willson Peale Scribner, 1969
• Dickinson College: a history Wesleyan University Press, 1973