[EARLY PHOTOG.] Portraits of of scientists & intellectuals incl. Louis AGASSIZ, John AUDUBON.

11 CDV portraits featuring subjects including: German scientist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). New York: Anthony/Brady. -- American inventor and politician Peter Cooper (1791-1883). New York: Anthony/Brady. -- West Point Professor Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889). Credited but obscured by paper/adhesive residue. -- American inventor Samuel Morse (1791-1872). Uncredited. -- 5 portraits of Swiss-American biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Various photographers. -- American naturalist and writer, and wife of Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907). Boston, MA: Whipple. -- And French-American naturalist and ornithologist John James Audubon (1785-1851). New York: Anthony/Brady.

2 cabinet card portraits featuring: American physicist John Trowbridge (1843-1923). Boston, MA: Notman. -- And American surgeon and zoologist Charles Bingham Penrose (1862-1925). Philadelphia, PA: O. B. DeMorat.

Together, 13 portraits of scientists and intellectuals.

Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey

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[EARLY PHOTOG.] Portraits of of scientists & intellectuals incl. Louis AGASSIZ, John AUDUBON.

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