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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 8h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic Print
Type:
Photographic print
Portraits
Painting
Date:
June 17, 1938
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Charles Schuchert was appointed Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the United States National Museum in 1894 and remained there for ten years. During this time, he participated in Robert Peary's 1897 expedition to Greenland and represented the United States government at the International Geological Congress in Vienna in 1903. The year that he signed this print, 1893, he was hired by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and his work as a preparator at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History was being exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Summary:
Print of a painting of paleontologist Charles Schuchert seated, holding a fossil, with another on the table in front of him. Schuchert has signed it, "Yours Truly Charles Schuchert June 17, 1938."