Published Biographical References

• American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter Records, 1869-1910. 7 vols. Minutes, 1869-1908; minutes of the Executive Committee, 1903-1910; minutes of the Education Committee, 1870-1873; minutes of the Admission Committee, 1870-1873; and receipt book, 1888-1904. (American Philosophical Society, on deposit in The Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
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• American Art Annual. v.21 (1924/25) "Who's Who In Architecture.", p. 458
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  Office: 1301 Stephen Girard Bldg., Philadelphia, PA
   
• The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Clifton, N.J.: J. T. White, 1892- , v. 26, p. 281-282
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• Cotter, John, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington, The Buried Past An Archaelogical History of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 111
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• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1931
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  Membership: Philadelphia Chapter, AIA, Fellow
   
• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1931
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  Membership: T-Square Club, Member
   
• Engineers Club of Philadelphia. Proceedings. 2 (February 1881): 203.
   
• Obituary: New York Times (27 November 1933); Public Ledger (28 November 1933)
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "The Architectural Spirit of Christ Church." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 54 (1930): 315-319.
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "Charles Willson Peale, Artist-Soldier." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 38 (1914): 257-286.
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. Engravings by Charles Willson Peale, Limner. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1933. [reprinted from Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 4 (1933)]
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "Extracts from the Diary of Nathan Sellers, 1776-1778." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 26 (1892): 191-196.
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "The Home of the Motor Car; How the Garage Should Be Planned with a View to Attractiveness and Practical Use." Indoors and Out 4 (1907): 101-110.
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "Letter of Surgeon's Mate Benjamin Shield to Brigadier-General James Hamilton, 1781." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 19 (1895): 116-118.
   
• Sellers, Horace Wells. "Letters of Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 28 (1904): 136-154; 295-319; 403-419.
   
• University of Pennsylvania. Architectural Alumni Society. The Book of the School. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1934, p.151.
   
• University of Pennsylvania. General Alumni Catalogue. Philadelphia: 1917, p. 80.
   

Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Membership records, Philadelphia Chapter, AIA (Photocopy in biography file, Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
   

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