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Manning Ferguson Force, Army Commander

Date: 1865
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Manning Ferguson Force (1824-1899), U.S. Army Commander. Force led the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Un...
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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...
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Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), former state geologist of Michigan and professor of Geology and Paleontology at the ...
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John Lawrence Smith, Chemist

Date: 1854
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John Lawrence Smith (1818-1883), American chemist. From 1846-1850, he worked for the Turkish government, exploring their count...
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Sir William Jackson Hooker, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist. Preceded his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens. ...
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Josiah Hoopes, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Josiah Hoopes (b. 1832, death date unknown), American botanist. In 1853, he established a tree nursery in West Chester, which i...
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Joshua Hoopes, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Joshua Hoopes (1788-1874), American Botanist. An infant at the time of the Wyoming Indian massacre, his mother strapped him on ...
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Dr. Henry Parker Sartwell, Botanist

Date: 12 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Henry Parker Sartwell (1792-1867), American botanist.
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Edmund Andrews, Surgeon

Date: 1869
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edmund Andrews (1824-1904), Vermont-born surgeon. Andrews served as Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Universit...
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Oliver Marcy, Naturalist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Oliver Marcy (1820-1899), American educator and natural scientist. In 1862, he became professor and chair of the natural histor...
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Professor Charles Abiathar White, Geologist

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a...
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Charles Christopher Parry, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Ro...
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Professor Davenport Fisher, Chemist

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive...
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Spencer Fullerton Baird, Ornithologist and Ichthylogist

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), American ornithologist and ichthylogist. In 1838, Baird met John James Audubon, after whic...
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Samuel C.F. Hahnemann, M.D.

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite featuring a bust of Samuel C.F. Hahnemann (1755-1843), German physician. Hahnemann is credited as the founder of homeopathic medicine, as w...
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Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp...
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Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867). Worked as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at University of Pennsylv...
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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...
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Dr. John Maynard Woodworth in Fur Clothing

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), an American physician and naturalist who is shown in a Russian-American fur trapper's c...
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Dr. John Maynard Woodworth, Physician

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), American physician and naturalist. In 1871, Woodworth became the first Surgeo...

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