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Sir William Jackson Hooker, Botanist
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Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist. Preceded his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens. Professor of Botany at Glasgow University (1820-1840). Shown here, one year before he died, in full-body three-quarter profile, sitting in a chair and holding a book in front of a fabricated backdrop. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, "Dir. Wm. Hooker, Kew Gardens."
1864
Edwards, Ernest, 1837-1903
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Joseph Dalton Hooker, Botanist
1864
Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph D. Hooker (1817-1911), English botanist, plant collector and traveller. Son of Sir William Hooker. A close friend of Charles Darwin, Hooke became the director o...
Dr. Henry Parker Sartwell, Botanist
December 1864
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Henry Parker Sartwell (1792-1867), American botanist.
Asa Gray, Botanist
1864
Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888), American botanist. His most popular botanical publication, "Gray's Manual," remains a standard in the field. He served as a pupil of Jo...
William H. Pratt
1864
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Pratt of Davenport, Iowa. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads, "Pratt, 1864."
Daniel Cady Eaton, Botanist
1864
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Daniel C. Eaton (1834-1895), American Botanist. In 1864 (the year of this photograph), Eaton became a professor of botany at Yale University, where he taught u...
William S. Sullivant, Naturalist
September 29, 1864
Carte-de-visite portrait of William S. Sullivant (1803-1873), Ohio naturalist. Sullivant was one of the leading bryologists in the United States, focusing on mosses. Handwritten inscription at the ...
