Photographs of drawings of "Fort Snelling from the East" in Carl Andreas Geyer's journal from the Nicollet Expedtion, 1838. One image is a cropped enlargement of the other.
Carl Andreas Geyer (also known as Charles or Karl Geyer, 1809-1853) was a German botanist who took part in several expeditions in the United States between 1835 and 1845. He accompanied Joseph Nicolas Nicollet on his 1838 expedition to the upper Mississippi and Missouri river area in Minnesota.
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Photo lot R81Q, Photographs of Carl Andreas Geyer sketch of Fort Snelling, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Original journal is in Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU007290.
Material produced by Nicollet during his 1838-1839 expedition are held in Smithsonain Institution Archives SIA Acc. 84-176.