George Combe Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., and Benjamin Pickman Mann [photograph], [ca. 1853].

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George Combe Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., and Benjamin Pickman Mann [photograph], [ca. 1853].

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Hand-colored half-plate daguerreotype in leather half-case of the sons of the educator Horace Mann: George Combe Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., and Benjamin Pickman Mann. The photograph was taken circa 1853 by an unknown photographer.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 9 x 12 1/4 cm. (half-plate), in case 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 cm.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Mann, George Combe, b. 1845

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Mann, B. Pickman (Benjamin Pickman), 1848-1926

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Mann, Horace, 1844-1868

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Mann was born in Boston in 1844, the eldest son of the well-known educator, Horace Mann. He received much of his education informally from his father and also studied zoology and botany with Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School. Mann specialized in Hawaiian plants, and prepared his thesis on this subject. It was published in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science (1866), and Mann received his degree in 1867. He died a year later of tuberculosis, leavi...