__NOTOC__ William Culp Darrah (19091989) was an American professor of biology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He also had an interest in, and published several works on, 19th-century photography. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, his was a specialist in

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. Darrah was a fellow of the

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, as well a member of Sigma Xi and the

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. As an authority on the history of photography, he authored several books about 19th-century photo processes and photographers. As part of his interest in early photography, he assembled a collection of over 60,000 cartes-de-visite, which is now held at Penn State University. He died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Selected bibliography

Biology

*''Principles of paleobotany'' (1960) *''Textbook of paleobotany'' (1939) *''A critical review of the upper Pennsylvanian floras of eastern United States with notes on the Mazon Creek flora of Illinois'' (1969)

Photography

*''Stereo views, a history of stereographs in America and their collection'' (1964) *''A check list of Maine photographers who issued stereographs'' (1967) *''An Album of stereographs : or, Our country victorious and now a happy home : from the collections of William Culp Darrah and Richard Russack'' (1977) *''The world of stereographs'' (1977) *''Cartes de visite in nin eenth century photography'' (1981)

References

External links

Papers of William C. Darrah, MS-128
at Gettysburg College

at Pennsylvania State University Libraries 1909 births 1989 deaths Historians of photography Paleobotanists 20th-century American botanists Gettysburg College faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science People from Reading, Pennsylvania 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians from Pennsylvania 20th-century American male writers {{US-sci-historian-stub