Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 37v
Notes:
See Dard Hunter's Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft for an exhaustive account of experiments with alternative fibers.
The image depicts a sheet of paper made by students at Elizabethtown College from a mixture containing 10 percent algae or duckweed — the smallest flowering plant on the earth, and 90 percent is cotton or abaca, also known as Manila hemp.
Philadelphia carver and gilder James Reynolds was, with Robert Aitken, one of the appraisers of Du Simitière's estate.
