Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 23, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 30
Notes:
On Elba the common iron ore found in specimen form is hematite.
Peter Kuhn, Jr., son of a Philadelphia merchant, operated a commercial house in Gibraltar. In 1803, he expanded his business to Genoa and formed the partnership Kuhn, Green & Co., which on a few occasions filled Thomas Jefferson’s orders for items such as wine and macaroni. The president named Kuhn the American consul in Genoa in 1804, a post he retained until being arrested and exiled by the French in 1807 under suspicion of spying for the British. After returning to the U.S., he advertised for publication by subscription his treatise A System of Exchange Operations between the Principal Places of Europe (apparently never published), which advised American merchants on how best to negotiate currency exchange rates in Europe. Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0572
