Jean Louis Agassiz
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Agassiz, Louis 1807-1873
- Board of Regents
- Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Harvard University
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- The original negative number is 45899 and 79-10446, but that negative has been lost. Original in small print file
- Summary
- Portrait of Jean Louis Agassiz, 1807-1873, member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents. He was the leading biologist in the United States in the 1840s and the founding director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He was known for his anti-Darwinism stance.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 1, Folder: 23
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1870
- Standard number
- 2002-10678
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- SI, Early History
- Biologists
- Biology
- Regents
- Museum directors
- Portraits
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9583
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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