Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 15, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 28
Notes:
Zinc sulfide is the mineral sphalerite.
Lead was mined near where Perkiomen Creek flows into the Shuylkill River, just outside the northern border of present-day Valley Forge National Historical Park. The 200- to 300-acre estate of Henry Pawling (d. 1822), known as Walnut Hill, now lies within the park. Brooke Elin Vincent, "Function and Use of a Nineteenth-Century Barn: "Walnut Hill" Estate, Pawling Road, Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania" University of Pennsylvania thesis,1991 / https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1310&context=h…
James Woodhouse (1770-1809) was an American surgeon and chemist.
The Peale Museum received a similar specimen on 16 Sep 1808 from Archibald Binny (1762‐1838) and James Ronaldson (1768‐1842), partners in a type-founding firm. Accessions Book, p. 35
