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Correspondence of Charles Mohr and G. W. Clinton |
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The Correspondence of Charles (Carl) Theodore Mohr (1824‑1901)
and George William Clinton (1807‑1885) Edited by P. M. Eckel, P.O. Box 299, Missouri Botanical
Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, 63166‑0299; email: mailto:patricia.eckel@mobot.org
Charles Mohr Specimens of Charles T. Mohr curated The
Letters 1867 The image displayed above is from the original
photograph album of George W. Clinton archived in the Research Library of the
Buffalo Museum of Science. It is a carte de visite or visiting card format
photograph, made popular during the Civil War era and must be contemporary,
approximately, with his letters. This may indicate the popularity of this
medium in the southern states of the Confederacy (Mobile) as well as those of
the northern states of the Union. There is a photograph in the Gray archives
at Harvard University, but as this is dated to around 1900, it must have been
taken toward the end of Mohr's life (d. 1901). The image posted here must be
earlier in Mohr's life as in 1869 Mohr wrote to Clinton: "According to
your wish I send you my photographic carte de visit. It represents to you a
fellow citizen of german birth, who loves dearly his adopted country and is
striving hard to bring up for its benefit 3 sons and 2 daughters as good and
useful children of this country of their birth, regarding this task as the
prime object of his life" (March 5, 1869). The proper citation of this electronic publication is: "Eckel, P. M. 2003. Correspondence of Charles Mohr and G. W.
Clinton. Res Botanica, Missouri Botanical Garden Web site.
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/ResBot/hist/corrauth/MohrClinton/1_MohrClinton.htm.
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