Specimen of Red Coral, with a part of the Rock, on which it grew attached to it

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 75

Notes:

Samuel Mifflin (1776-1829) was a Philadelphia merchant and the principal partner of Benjamin Henry Latrobe in the rolling and slitting mill attached the Schuylkill Engine House of the first Philadelphia Waterworks. John C. Van Horne and Lee W. Formwalt, eds., The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 3 vols. (New Haven, 1984-1988), 1:323n