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Unidentified photographer
Group portrait of three men posed with an Everest theodolite and other instruments
1840s
Daguerreotype
Museum of the History of Science
LL/39606
One of the men may be Sir George Everest (1790-1866), military engineer and surveyor, after whom both the theodolite and mountain are named.
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Unidentified photographer, 1840s, "Group portrait of three men posed with an Everest theodolite and other instruments", Daguerreotype, Museum of the History of Science, LL/39606
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