Louis Agassiz Fuertes papers, 1892-1954, 1892-1927 (bulk).

Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921

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Painter; Dublin, New Hampshire. From the description of Abbott Handerson Thayer papers, 1861-1936 [microform]. 1962. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 79732064 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, N.H., to Mr. Clark, [no year] Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571900 Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and raised in rural New Hampshire, where he became an avid outdoorsman a...

Harriman Alaska Expedition 1899

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The expedition was sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Photograph, [ca. 1899]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532497 The Expedition was financed by Edward Henry Harriman as a combination pleasure cruise and scientific expedition from May to August 1899. From the description of Arctic field photographs, 1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517798 Originally proposed as a hunting expedition, Edward Harriman tr...

Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929

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Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909

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Harriman was a wealthy businessman with an interest in trotting horses. He gained control of the Historic Track in Goshen, N.Y. in the 1890s and ran amateur races there. From the description of Papers, 1890-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523846 ...

Merriam, Clinton Hart, 1855-1942

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C. Hart Merriam was a biologist who work for the Smithsonian Institution from 1910-1939. Merriam was born December 5, 1855 in New York City. His childhood was spent in Locust Grove, Lewis County, New York. Merriam’s father introduced him to Prof. Spencer Baird who attached the seventeen year old Merriam to a government expedition, the Hayden Survey. He spent a summer collecting birds and eggs in the Yellowstone region. That year, he attended college, first at the Pingry Military School in Elizab...

Sutton, George Miksch, 1898-1982

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Brandreth, Courtenay

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Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927

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Artist, naturalist. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes exhibit items, 1982-1983. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 74897982 From the description of Louis Agassiz Fuertes pencil drawing, [ca.1900]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010685 Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an ornithologist and a painter of birds. He was a resident lecturer at Cornell University for several years. From the description of Louis Agassiz Fu...

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

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Boynton, Mary Fuertes, 1908-1988

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Bishop, Richard E. (Richard Evett), 1887-1975

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Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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American naturalist. From the description of ALS, 1874 Aug. 25, Rocky Mountains, lat. 40° N [Montana], to Thomas George Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617038 William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence,...

Stone, Whitmer.

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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944

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Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Holland on January 14, 1882. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch and began working for the Associated Press in New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Warsaw. His son Henry Bowditch van Loon was born on June 22, 1907, and Gerard Willem van Loon on January 16, 1911. Hendrik van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911, and in 1913 his book THE FALL OF THE DUTCH REPU...

Savage Club (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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