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Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University / https://igws.indiana.edu/ReferenceDocs/GeoNotes/GeoNotes_PeacockCoal.pdfIMAGE INFORMATION

Piece of Rainbow Coal from the Western Country

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 24, 1805

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 3

Notes:

For rainbow, or peacock coal, see https://igws.indiana.edu/ReferenceDocs/GeoNotes/GeoNotes_PeacockCoal.pdf

The donor was probably the Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (1746-1811), a founder of the University of North Carolina. Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton, 1980), pp. 245-249