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Aram Dulyan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Borax_crystals.jpgIMAGE INFORMATION

Borax

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 4, 1817

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 86

Notes:

Elijah L. Lawton (d. 1819) of Georgia graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. He served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. Horace Mather Lippincott, The University of Pennsylvania, Franklin's College (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 211