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Chromate of Iron, from Barehills near Baltimore

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

November 13, 1821

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 117

Notes:

This specimen was possibly chromite.

Bare Hill Mines, Mount Washington, Baltimore County.

The donor may have been the son of William Wood, the manager of the Peales' Baltimore Museum.