John Henry Haynes
John Henry Haynes | |
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John Henry Haynes (Copyright UPenn) | |
| First American Consul in Baghdad | |
| In office 1888–1892 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 January 1849 Rowe, Massachusetts |
| Died | 29 June 1910 (aged 61) North Adams, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Cassandria Artella Haynes |
John Henry Haynes (27 January 1849 – 29 June 1910) was an American traveller, archaeologist and photographer, best known for his work at the first two American archaeological excavations in the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia at Nippur and Assos. Haynes can be regarded as the father of American archaeological photography and his corpus remains an important record of numerous archaeological sites across Ottoman Anatolia.