Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 15, 1819
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 100
Notes:
Rock salt is halite.
The Garesché family of France settled in Saint-Domingue, and then fled to Philadelphia in 1791 at the time of the slave uprising. Dorothy Garesché Holland, The Garesché, de Bauduy, and Des Chapelles families: history and genealogy (St. Louis, 1963)
