File:Herter Founders of the National Academy of Sciences 1924.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file(824 × 410 pixels, file size: 99 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description Albert Herter, Founders of the National Academy of Sciences (1924), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
This group portrait depicts President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, signing legislation to create the National Academy of Sciences.
Left to right: Benjamin Peirce, Librarian of Harvard University; Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of U.S. Coastal Survey; Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Jean Louis Agassiz, Founder of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States; Henry Wilson, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory; Benjamin A. Gould, Astronomer.
Date
Source Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: Albert Herter (Lincoln Financial Foundation, 1924), p. 55.
Author Albert Herter (2 March 1871 - 15 February 1950), artist

Licensing

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

19 November 2021

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:18, 28 December 2020Thumbnail for version as of 02:18, 28 December 2020824 × 410 (99 KB)BoringHistoryGuy{{Information |Description=Albert Herter, ''Founders of the National Academy of Sciences'' (1924), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.<br>This group portrait depicts President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, signing legislation to create the National Academy of Sciences.<br>Left to right: Benjamin Peirce, Librarian of Harvard University; Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of U.S. Coastal Survey; Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Jean Louis Agassiz, Found...
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata