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This photograph shows Professor Lewis L. Dyche dressed in a fur outfit that he wore during the Peary party rescue mission. In this photograph, Dyche demonstrates how he harpooned a walrus during the rescue expedition. Professor Dyche was the head of the systematic zoology and taxidermy department at the University of Kansas from 1900 until his death in 1915.
Date: 1895
Item Number: 222184
Call Number: B Dyche, Lewis L. *4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 222184
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Professors
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1890s - 1895
Education - Higher education - Institutions - University of Kansas
Education - Higher education - Teachers/Professors
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Dyche, Lewis L.
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
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