Steel engraving; hand colored, 1867
Image size 7 1/4 x 5 1/2" (185 x 140 mm).
Good condition, save some soiling in the margins. LOCATION: New York City
Inventory Number: 49045
Price: $60.00
Publisher : Johnson, Fry, & Co., New York.
Eli Whitney (1765 - 1825) was an inventor best remembered for the cotton gin. Born in Westboro, Massachusetts, he graduated Yale as Phi Beta Kappa in 1792.Black and white. 18th-19th Century Subjects, Portraits, Scientists & Philosophers