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Red Ochre, from the Paint Spring on the Blue Mountain

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 22, 1808

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 30

Additional Source Text:

"About five miles above the Delaware water Gap Walpac [Walpack] Township Sussex County New Jersey."

Notes:

Reuben Haines (1786-1831) was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer. An active member of the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences, he kept a scientific cabinet at his home at Wyck House in Germantown, Pa.