Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 28, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 33
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "of Cootstown" [Kutztown, Pa.]
Notes:
The donor was probably German-born physician Christian Ludwig Schlemm (1776-1850), although he is said to have settled in Kutztown in 1818. See Morton Luther Montgomery, History of Berks County in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1886), p. 596.
