Leavitt Hunt

American photographer and Army officer (1831–1907)

  • Fame36.3
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia108
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Lived 1831–1907, aged 76United States
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    1831–1907
    Aged 76
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Updated 2026-06-20

Leavitt Hunt 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.

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