Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902
- Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See 10396 and 10696 for similar images.
- Summary
- Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) seated, side view looking from his left, middle-aged, c. 1879. Geologist and western explorer, Powell led an expedition to the Grand Canyon in the 1870's. He was first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian from its founding in 1879 until his death in 1902.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 18, Folder: 57a
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1879
- Standard number
- 10592 or MAH-10592
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- United States
- America
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Ethnologists
- Geologists
- Scientific expeditions
- Portraits
- Discovery and exploration
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10064
