About: Lee Passmore

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Lee Passmore (January 9, 1874 – December 12, 1958) was an American photographer and field naturalist who worked with scientists and staff at the San Diego Natural History Museum documenting the flora and fauna of southern California. Passmore published photo essays on natural history subjects in popular magazines from the 1920s to the 1940s, and contributed photographs to several natural history monographs. Passmore donated his extensive collection of photographic negatives, glass slides, and Kodachrome transparencies to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1958; these include significant collections of images on the natural history of the trapdoor spider, the carpenter bee, and the tomato sphinx moth.

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  • Lee Passmore (January 9, 1874 – December 12, 1958) was an American photographer and field naturalist who worked with scientists and staff at the San Diego Natural History Museum documenting the flora and fauna of southern California. Passmore published photo essays on natural history subjects in popular magazines from the 1920s to the 1940s, and contributed photographs to several natural history monographs. Passmore donated his extensive collection of photographic negatives, glass slides, and Kodachrome transparencies to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1958; these include significant collections of images on the natural history of the trapdoor spider, the carpenter bee, and the tomato sphinx moth. Passmore also photographed life in early 20th-century San Diego; subjects include the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, Old Town San Diego, the Old Mission Dam, Sunset Cliffs, the tuna industry, and the San Diego harbor and boats. The San Diego Historical Society holds a large number of Passmore's photographs of San Diego subjects (c. 1905–1935). (en)
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  • Levi Nickerson Passmore (en)
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  • 1874-01-09 (xsd:date)
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  • 1958-12-12 (xsd:date)
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  • 1958-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • A smiling man with a large spider on his cheek (en)
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  • 1874-01-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada (en)
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  • 1958-12-12 (xsd:date)
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  • San Diego, California, United States (en)
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  • Assoc: San Diego Natural History Museum (en)
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  • Nature photography (en)
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  • Lee Passmore (en)
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  • Levi Nickerson Passmore (en)
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  • Lee Passmore (January 9, 1874 – December 12, 1958) was an American photographer and field naturalist who worked with scientists and staff at the San Diego Natural History Museum documenting the flora and fauna of southern California. Passmore published photo essays on natural history subjects in popular magazines from the 1920s to the 1940s, and contributed photographs to several natural history monographs. Passmore donated his extensive collection of photographic negatives, glass slides, and Kodachrome transparencies to the San Diego Natural History Museum in 1958; these include significant collections of images on the natural history of the trapdoor spider, the carpenter bee, and the tomato sphinx moth. (en)
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