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Professor Robert von Schlagintweit, Geographer

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert von Schlagintweit (1833-1885), German orientalist, geographer and explorer. Along with his oldest brother Hermann, Rober...
Photograph

Robert Kennicott, Naturalist

Date: 1862
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Robert Kennicott (1835-1866), American Naturalist. After 1853 he worked for Spencer Fullerton Baird at the Smithsonian Insti...
Photograph

The Late Major J.W. Powell

Date: 1902
Description: Waist-up studio portrait, with accompanying obituary entry, of Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), American soldier, explorer, and geologist. Best known ...
Painting

Marquette and Joliet Discover the Mississippi River

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Description: A painting depicting Marquette and Joliet in a birch bark canoe with two other men during their excursion on the Mississippi River, which they discovered o...
Book or Pamphlet

Columbian Calendar Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Columbian calendar cover featuring Christopher Columbus, in honor of the anniversary of the four hundredth year of the discovery of America by Columbus (qu...

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