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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Elias Durand (1794-1873), French botanist. Left France and came to America after the downfall of Emperor Napoleon. Es... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | This map shows the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, and railroads. Boundaries are shown in bl... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | This geological map shows the township grid, counties, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railroads, and roads. Barron County is still labeled Dallas Coun... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), American minerologist, geologist, and zoologist. He is best known for his discoveries of mountai... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution... |
| Date: | 09 29 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of William S. Sullivant (1803-1873), Ohio naturalist. Sullivant was one of the leading bryologists in the United States, focusing ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead (1799-1880), Illinois-based physician and botanist. Mead, a pioneer in both the fields of medicine and b... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Josiah Hoopes (b. 1832, death date unknown), American botanist. In 1853, he established a tree nursery in West Chester, which i... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite featuring a bust of Samuel C.F. Hahnemann (1755-1843), German physician. Hahnemann is credited as the founder of homeopathic medicine, as w... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map of showing the two proposed routes from the Milwaukee River to the Moody’s Lime Quarry at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The map includes the route... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist. Preceded his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens. ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of John Gould Anthony (1804-1877), head of the Conchology department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1863 until his deat... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog." He also coined the term "agnosticism" to describe his reli... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Meehan (1826-1902), American botanist. Meehan emigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1848. Served as editor... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Joseph Blake (1814-1888), Maine-born reverend, professor and botanist. Published first catalogue of Maine Pl... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Raja Radhakant Deva Bahadoor (1783-1867), Indian scholar and author. Best known for writing the Sanskrik Encyclopedia, Sabdakalpadruma (... |
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