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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: KN-10875 (Color) Assistant Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane, USN (1820-1857) Oil on canvas, 72" x 53", by Thomas Hicks (1823-1890). Signed and dated by the artist, 1859. The painting depicts Kane in the cabin of the exploration ship Advance, probably during his second expedition to the Arctic, circa 1853-1855. Painting in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum Collection. Gift of Florence Bayard Kane and Charles Carey, 1940. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. Online Image: 84KB; 590 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-10875

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2 April 2003