William Healey Dall Wearing his Expedition Uniform

ID: SA-1156 or 2006-18833

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: July 9, 1865

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 42

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Summary

William Healey Dall (1845-1927), malacologist, dressed in a Western Union Telegraph Expedition uniform, poses for a photo. The photo is signed "Wm. H. Dall."

Subject

  • Dall, William Healey 1845-1927
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Mollusks
  • United States National Museum
  • United States Geological Survey (USGS)
  • United States Coast Survey
  • Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1865-1867)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Dean of Alaskan explorations, William Healey Dall, 1845-1927, began his scientific career as a member of the Scientific Corps of the Alaskan Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865. While on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, 1865-1868, Dall conducted a geological and biological survey of Alaska to determine a feasible route for a telegraph cable across the Bering Strait. A member of the Expedition's Scientific Corps, he assumed leadership of the Expedition after the death of Robert Kennicott in 1866. In 1871 he was appointed to the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey, where he continued his studies on Alaska and the northern Pacific Coast. Dall left the Coast Survey in 1884 to transfer to the United States Geological Survey as a paleontologist. A position he held until 1925. Concurrently, as a malacologist he assembled and described some of the collections of mollusca and other organisms held by the United States National Museum, and served as Honorary Curator of the Museum's Division of Mollusks from 1880 until his death.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 42

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

July 9, 1865

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Scientific expeditions
  • Telegraph
  • Clothing and dress
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Naturalists
  • Uniforms
  • Malacologists
  • Paleontologists
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Explorations and Expeditions
  • Invertebrate Zoologists
  • Museum curators
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Alaska

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Portraits

ID Number

SA-1156 or 2006-18833

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portraits; Medium: Photographic print

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