Major John Wesley Powell
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Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 18, Folder: 57
Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) seated, side view from his left, middle-aged but no date. Geologist and western explorer, Powell led an expedition to the Grand Canyon in the 1870's. He was first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian from its founding in 1879 until his death in 1902.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 18, Folder: 57
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
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10396 or MAH-10396
Color: Cyano type; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print