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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. |
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| Source | Artists of Abraham Lincoln Portraits: Albert Herter (Lincoln Financial Foundation, 1924), p. 55. |
| Author | Albert Herter (2 March 1871 - 15 February 1950), artist |
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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, 1931. |
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