William Healey Dall Wearing his Expedition Uniform
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- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Dall, William Healey 1845-1927
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Mollusks
- United States National Museum
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- United States Coast Survey
- Western Union Telegraph Expedition (1865-1867)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Dean of Alaskan explorations, William Healey Dall, 1845-1927, began his scientific career as a member of the Scientific Corps of the Alaskan Western Union Telegraph Expedition in 1865. While on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, 1865-1868, Dall conducted a geological and biological survey of Alaska to determine a feasible route for a telegraph cable across the Bering Strait. A member of the Expedition's Scientific Corps, he assumed leadership of the Expedition after the death of Robert Kennicott in 1866. In 1871 he was appointed to the United States Coast & Geodetic Survey, where he continued his studies on Alaska and the northern Pacific Coast. Dall left the Coast Survey in 1884 to transfer to the United States Geological Survey as a paleontologist. A position he held until 1925. Concurrently, as a malacologist he assembled and described some of the collections of mollusca and other organisms held by the United States National Museum, and served as Honorary Curator of the Museum's Division of Mollusks from 1880 until his death.
- Summary
- William Healey Dall (1845-1927), malacologist, dressed in a Western Union Telegraph Expedition uniform, poses for a photo. The photo is signed "Wm. H. Dall."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 42
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- July 9, 1865
- Standard number
- SA-1156 or 2006-18833
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Portraits
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portraits; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Alaska
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Clothing and dress
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Invertebrate Zoologists
- Malacologists
- Museum curators
- Naturalists
- Paleontologists
- Scientific expeditions
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Telegraph
- Uniforms
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7866
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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