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Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890 George Biddell Airy

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1759 Author/Creator: Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1878 Pagination: 1 photograph Order a Copy

One photograph of George Biddell Airy, a mathematician, dated 1878, taken by photographers Lock and Whitfield.

Lock & Whitfield (photographers), fl. 1850-1890
Airy, George Biddell, Airy, 1801-1892

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