Members of the Clark Northern China Expedition
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1908
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7263, Arthur de Carle Sowerby Papers, Image No. SIA2008-3140
Members of the Sowerby-Clark China Expedition pose for a picture. Pictured are (Right to Left) Captain H. E. M. Douglas (medical), George A. Grant (manager), Nathaniel H. Cobb (artist), Robert Sterling Clark (expedition leader), Arthur de Carle Sowerby (naturalist). In 1908, Sowerby joined American millionaire Robert Sterling Clark on an expedition into Shansi and Kansu provinces of north China. Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956) financed several collecting trips by Sowerby. Many of the specimens collected by the Clark-Sowerby expeditions were deposited in the United States National Museum.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7263, Arthur de Carle Sowerby Papers, Image No. SIA2008-3140
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1908
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-3140]
Photographic prints