Photograph
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Geologist
| Carte-de-visite portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist and glaciologist. Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1860. Founding member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. Agassiz is shown sitting in three-quarter profile. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads: "Agassiz 1864." |
| Image ID: | 44730 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1864 |
| Creator Name: | Sonrel, August |
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| Collection Name: | Increase A. Lapham papers, 1825-1930 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 24 |
| Original Dimensions: | 2.5 x 4 inches |
| Agassiz's name appears in script on back. Photographer's credit on back reads, "A. Sonrel, 46 School Street, Boston." August Sonrel, to whom this credit refers, was a gifted 19th Century lithographer whom Agassiz had hired a number of years earlier to make images for a monograph on American fish. From album of portrait photographs collected by Lapham depicting scientists and artists, ca. 1860-ca. 1875. Images include portraits of geologists, botanists, sculptors, and authors. |
| Ephemera |
| Clothing and dress |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Portrait photography |
| Scientists |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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