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Contains 7 Results:

Sereno Watson portrait, 1840-1860 Digital

Item — Box: 2, Box: GH-1Identifier: gra00089, 1208
Hollis number:

olvwork96156

John Torrey portrait, circa 1840 Digital

Item — Box: 2, Box: GH-3Identifier: gra00089, 1202
Scope and Contents:

Dr. John Torrey, 1796-1873. Note in Jane Gray's hand: "Dr. John Torrey about 1840, when daguerreotypes were first seen--about the time Dr. Gray came to Cambridge."



François André Michaux and Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu portraits, 1851 Digital

Item — Box: 2, Box: GH-5.1/GH-5.2Identifier: gra00089, 1205
Scope and Contents:

Attached note in Jane Gray's hand: "Two daguerreotypes taken in Paris for Dr. Asa Gray in 1851. He asked M. Adrien de Jussieu and M. Michaux to sit for him. Michaux was then I think 84 and walked to Verrieres to breakfast at M. Vilmorin to meet Dr. Gray."



Hollis number

olvgroup77

Thomas Nuttall portrait, circa 1851-1865

Item — Box: 2Identifier: gra00089
Scope and Contents: This collection is comprised of eleven daguerreotypes and three ambrotypes, circa 1840-1865. Most of the images are portraits of well-known botanists including Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, Edwin Faxon, William Henry Harvey, Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu, François André Michaux, Thomas Nuttall, Charles Wilkins Short, John Torrey, Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, and Sereno Watson. One daguerreotype depicts a Wedgwood medallion of Carl Linnaeus and another features C. A. Weatherby’s great...

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward portrait, 1851 Digital

Item — Box: 2, Box: GH-2Identifier: gra00089, 1207
Scope and Contents:

Inscription: Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, 1791-1868. "N.B. Ward. 1851" on paper attached to case.



Hollis number

olvwork96159

Charles Wilkins Short portrait, circa 1840-1860 Digital

Item — Box: 2, Box: GH-4Identifier: gra00089, 1210
Scope and Contents:

Charles Wilkins Short, 1794-1863. "C.W. Short MD of Kentucky - 58/done by Ormsbee, Daguer. /corner of Washington and Bromfirled Street, Boston. Presented to Prof. Gray of Cambridge, Aug. 16, 1852."



Hollis number

olvwork96163

Notes from Jussieux and Michaux portrait (#1205); C.W. Short portrait (#1210) and Thomas Nuttall portrait (#1204)

File — Box: 2Identifier: gra00089
Scope and Contents: This collection is comprised of eleven daguerreotypes and three ambrotypes, circa 1840-1865. Most of the images are portraits of well-known botanists including Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, Edwin Faxon, William Henry Harvey, Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu, François André Michaux, Thomas Nuttall, Charles Wilkins Short, John Torrey, Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, and Sereno Watson. One daguerreotype depicts a Wedgwood medallion of Carl Linnaeus and another features C. A. Weatherby’s great...