Spiders Webb, from S. America, made by a Worm, which inhabits the Coldest Regions

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 26

Additional Source Text:

Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 8 Jan 1808 addds: "Spider's web (resembling Chinese paper)."

Notes:

Oliver Pollock (1737-1823) was an Irish-born trader, planter, and financier at Havana, Cuba, and New Orleans, La. He was appointed commercial agent of the U.S. in New Orleans in 1777 from where he supplied ammunition, provisions, and information to the Americans during the Revolution. He was appointed commercial agent of the U.S. in Havana, Cuba in 1783, where he was imprisoned for debt for eighteen months. Pollock was a merchant in Philadelphia roughly between 1788 and 1791 before moving to his estate in Cumberland County, Pa. He later moved to Pinckneyville, Miss., where he died / https://snaccooperative.org/view/49516184