Seaweed from Charles F. Durant’s Algae and Corallines of the Bay & Harbor of New York (1850). Clockwise from top: Ulva linza, Sargassum montagnei, and Polysiphonia nigrescens.
Featured on PDR in the essay Love and Longing in the Seaweed Album
Combing across 19th-century shores, seaweed collectors would wander for hours, tucking specimens into pouches and jars, before pasting their finds into artful albums. Sasha Archibald explores the eros contained in the pressed and illustrated pages of notable algologists, including “the most ambitious album of all” by Charles F. Durant.
Also appearing in the essay…
Ulva linza, Sargassum montagnei, and Polysiphonia nigrescens
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1850
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Algae and Corallines of the Bay & Harbor of New York
