Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831–February 16, 1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East. He and a companion, Nathan Flint Baker, traveled to Egypt, the Holy Land, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece on a Grand Tour in 1851–52, making one of the earliest photographic records of the Arab and ancient worlds, including the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, views along the Nile River, the ruins at Petra and the Parthenon in Greece.
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William Morris Hunt - Life and Career
... Hunt's father's family, the Hunt family of Vermont, were among Vermont's founders and largest landowners his mother's a family of wealth and prominence in Connecticut ... Hunt attended Harvard College but withdrew in his junior year ... denied the opportunity to paint and draw by an overbearing father, Jane Leavitt Hunt resolved that her children would be given the chance to study the arts in the best academies—even ...
... Hunt's father's family, the Hunt family of Vermont, were among Vermont's founders and largest landowners his mother's a family of wealth and prominence in Connecticut ... Hunt attended Harvard College but withdrew in his junior year ... denied the opportunity to paint and draw by an overbearing father, Jane Leavitt Hunt resolved that her children would be given the chance to study the arts in the best academies—even ...
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... Richard Morris Hunt William Morris Hunt Jarvis Hunt Thaddeus Leavitt Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Representative) Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Lieutenant Governor) United States Sanitary ...
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