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Sale 2708 - Lot 103

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(FLORIDA.) Photograph of an expedition to Florida by the Williams College Lyceum of Natural History. Salt print, 5½ x 7¼ inches, mounted on plain stiff paper; moderate foxing. [Fernandina, FL?], circa March 1857
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The Lyceum of Natural History was a student club at Williams College. They undertook several expeditions in the northeast and Canada in the 1830s, but seventeen years went by before resuming with a trip to Florida in 1857. Under the supervision of young natural history professor Paul A. Chadbourne (1823-1883, later president of Williams), they were in Florida from February to April, taking natural history specimens in northern Florida near Fernandina, and also in Key West. In this picture, possibly taken from a class album, 15 students are posed in a field with rifles and specimens. One student toward the left holds a small alligator by the tail; the one at the furthest right may be holding a bald eagle. The seated man in the top hat to the left could be Professor Chadbourne.

The expedition is discussed in the Lancaster Examiner of 15 April 1857; this image is illustrated in "History of Science at Williams" as Figure 6, at sites.williams.edu.

With--a view of the Lyceum building at Williams, from the school's 1861 class album, 6 x 8 inches oval, mounted on paper.

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