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La Veta Pass

April 7 2008 at 8:28 PM
Julie  (Login JumpinJulie)
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In the 1800's! Here is Hayden Pass' namesake, Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden, sitting there in the flesh! Here's the description from http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/fieldwork_exhibit/photographs/photographs.htm

"July 1877 Pictures of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories under the direction of Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden [1829-1887]. Photograph taken by William Henry Jackson [1843-1942] at La Veta Pass, Colorado.

"Three stragglers" in background and from left to right (mostly seated): Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker [1817-1911], Asa Gray [1810-1888], Mrs. Strachey, Jane Loring Gray [1821-1909], Captain Stevenson, Dr. Lanborn, General Strachey, Ferdinand Vanderveer Hayden [1829-1887]

From the archives of the Gray Herbarium


^..^ Julie

 
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