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Year
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Country
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mm
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Item
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Recto
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Verso
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Notes |
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1858-60
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UK |
63x105
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A1 | Carte de visite by L. Caldesi & Co. depicting Huxley as a young man. Issued about the same time that The Origin of Species was published, and that Huxley was gaining fame as Darwin's champion [1]. | ||
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c1865
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Russia |
59x102
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Carte de visite based on c1854 photo by Maull & Fox. The Russian translation of The Origin of Species was published in 1864, and Darwin became well-known in Russia during the 1860s [22]. |
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c1869
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UK |
62x104
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Set of rare photographs of a heavily-bearded Huxley, issued as cartes de visite by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. All appear to be from the same photo session, but based on verso text, A5 was issued later (post-1873) than the other two. |
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| A5 |
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c1870
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62x103
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A6 |
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Carte de visite by Elliott and Fry of London. | |
| c1874 | 62x100 | A7 | ![]() |
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Carte de visite of a photo by Elliott and Fry of London, issued by unknown publisher. | |
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c1875
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63x105
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A8 |
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Matched pair of cartes de visite by Hughes and Edmonds of London, depicting imaginary assemblages of prominent Victorian scientists and philosophers, including Darwin (A8) and Huxley (A9). These group photos are composites based on actual portraits, and incorporate J. M. Cameron's 1868 photo [8] of Darwin, and Elliott & Fry's c1870 photo of Huxley (horizontally inverted). | |
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1876
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62x105
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A10 | Carte de visite issued by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company after 1873 (Exhibition date on verso), probably in 1876 (hand-written date on verso). | |||
| c1880 | 107x166 | A11 |
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Iconic portrait, issued as a cabinet card by Elliott and Fry of London. One of the last and most reproduced photos taken of Darwin. | |
| c1884 | USA | 107x163 | A12 |
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Cabinet card of a painting by M. C. Tiers. Six scientists, including Darwin and Huxley, appear above; below sits Wilford Hall, the New York-based editor of the anti-science magazine Microcosm, surrounded by 30 allies. |
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