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Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section E and W from the Mounds

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section N and S from the Blue Mound

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and pencil on paper and shows a profile of the Blue Mound and East Blue Mound.
Map or Atlas

Profile [of Blue Mounds]

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and the geological formation of Blue Mound. Also shown is the location of Arnold's Hotel and Br...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation Apple River to Mineral Point Branch

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the Apple River, Little Otter Creek, Woods' Branch, Bonners' Branch,...
Manuscript

Profile of a Semi-Diurnal Spring Tidal Curve

Date: 12 1860
Description: Graph showing the profile of a semi-diurnal spring tidal curve deduced from 5452 half hourly ordinates obtained from the records of self registering tide g...
Photograph

William H. Pratt

Date: 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Pratt of Davenport, Iowa. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads, "Pratt, 1864."
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation E. Blue Mound Br. to the Wisconsin River

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the Blue Mounds, Hollow Run, Bogies Hollow Run, Bear Creek, East Bre...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation Spensley Br. to Little Bear Creek

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the Spensley Break, James Break, Wisconsin River, and Little Bear Cr...
Map or Atlas

Sections of the Blue Mounds: Section Through the Line A.B. Showing the Denudation E. Blue Mound Br. to the Wisconsin River

Date: 1864
Description: This map is pen and watercolor on paper and shows a profile and geological sections of the East Blue Mound Break, Blue Mound Creek, Black Earth River, and ...
Photograph

John Torrey, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i...
Photograph

Leo Lesquereux, Paleobotanist

Date: 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Leo Lesquereux, American paleobotanist. Also worked as assistant to L. Aggasiz.
Photograph

Albert H. Hoy, M.D.

Date: 1868
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Albert H. Hoy, Racine physician.
Photograph

Samuel Foster Haven, Anthropologist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t...
Photograph

Fielding B. Meek, Paleontologist

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist...
Photograph

Thomas Bassnett, Meteorologist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Bassnett (b. 1808, d. aft 1885), American meteorologist. Handwritten inscription at bottom of card reads, "Thos. Bassnet...
Photograph

Asa Gray, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888), American botanist. His most popular botanical publication, "Gray's Manual," remains a standar...
Photograph

James Hall, Geologist

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of James Hall (1811-1898), American geologist and paleontologist. Thought to be the top American invertebrate paleontol...
Photograph

Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
Photograph

Sir Charles Lyell, Geologist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish lawyer, geologist, and advocate of uniformitarianism. Handwritten text at the bottom o...
Photograph

John W. Taylor, Genealogist

Date: 1869
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of John W. Taylor, British genealogist. Handwritten inscription on bottom reads, "John W. Taylor, Leeds - England, 1869....

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