Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Kennicott, Robert
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- 43604 or MAH-43604 is the black and white negative and print, as well as this original carte de visite.
- Summary
- Robert Kennicott (1835-1866), explorer and naturalist, in his field clothes. Noted for his field work in Alaska, Kennicott was one of a group of young naturalists who lived in the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle" and dubbed themselves "The Megatherium Club." Kennicott died in Alaska on May 13, 1866, while commanding the Russian-American Telegraph Expedition, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 27C, Folder: 37
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1860s
- Standard number
- SIA2011-0145
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Card photograph
- Portraits
- Physical description
- Color: Sepia; Size: 2.5w x 4h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Card photograph
- Place
- Alaska
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Explorers
- Megatherium Club
- Expeditions
- Scientific expeditions
- Scientific Corps
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9667
