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Contains 5 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

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