Name/Title
Proctor, Richard Anthony, Portrait Photo, c. 1880Entry/Object ID
P1994.1H.263Description
Proctor, Richard Anthony, Portrait Photo, c. 1880. b/w. Photo of man in mid-life, seated in chair, wearing dark, 3-piece suit, holding a rolled document in his left hand. Globe on table beside him. See Museum Graphic, Fall, 1954, Vol. 6, No. 4, p. 2.
Proctor was an internationally recognized expert in the field of astronomy. Born & educated in England, he wrote and lectured in Europe and the United States, in 1884 he bought a home in St. Joseph. He died in 1888 of yellow fever in New York.
(Taken from in 1954 from frontispieces "A Library of Unreal Literature in 4 parts, Science Biography, Fiction & Great Orations, Part I, Science, by Richard A. Proctor.)
Original digital scan located on History CD 04.Made/Created
Date made
1880Place
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St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Richard A. Proctor