Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
Additional Source Text:
"In the crevices of the rocks in small chrystals; which, when taken off, again issue out by the heat of the sun. The people there use of this Alum, in their dies; also another beautiful specimen of Allum from the same place, incircling a pure piece of verdigrease."
Notes:
The donor was probably Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820), surveyor and mathematician and Peale's fellow member of the American Philosophical Society. He may have acquired the specimen during his Pennsylvania commission in 1793-1796 to plot a road from Reading, Pa. to Presqu'Ile, Pa. and plan the city of Erie.
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