Leavitt Hunt
Leavitt Hunt | |
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| Born | February 22, 1830 Brattleboro, Vermont |
| Died | February 16, 1907 (aged 75–76) Weathersfield, Vermont |
| Place of burial | Weathersfield Bow Cemetery, Weathersfield, Vermont |
| Allegiance | United States of America Union |
| Branch | Union Army |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Unit | 38th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Army of the Potomac; Adjutant General's Corps; War Department |
| Battles / wars | American Civil War |
| Other work | Photographer, attorney, farmer, inventor, art collector |
Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831–February 16, 1907) was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East. He and a companion, Nathan Flint Baker, traveled to Egypt, the Holy Land, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece on a Grand Tour in 1851–52, making one of the earliest photographic records of the Arab and ancient worlds, including the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid of Giza, views along the Nile River, the ruins at Petra and the Parthenon in Greece.