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Lech Darski, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Halit_%28NaCl%29_-_…IMAGE INFORMATION

Rock salt from the Osage country, having been used by the Osages

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)