Portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873)

ID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27_016]

Creator: Purdy & Frear

Form/Genre: Photographs

Date: 1860

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27, Image No. SIA_000095_B27_016

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Subject

  • Agassiz, Louis 1807-1873
  • Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents

Notes

  • SPS Copy No. 79-10447
  • Agassiz was a Swiss-born author, Harvard professor, zoologist, naturalist, b. Switzerland, d. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Smithsonian Regent, Citizen of Massachusetts (1863-1873). He was the leading biologist in the United States in the 1840s and the founding director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He was known for his anti-Darwinism stance.
  • Printed on recto: A. J. Purdy / William Frear/ Ithaca, N. Y.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27, Image No. SIA_000095_B27_016

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1860
  • Circa 1860s

Restrictions & Rights

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  • No Copyright - United States

Topic

  • Portraits
  • Scientists

Form/Genre

Photographs

Local number

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B27_016]

Physical description

Cartes-de-visite (card photographs);

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