Col. Leavitt Hunt (1831-1907)
Attorney of New York & Vermont; Early Photographer in the Middle East
He was a Harvard-educated attorney and brother of the famous Gilded Age architect, Richard Morris Hunt. 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. His photographs included the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, views along the Nile River, the ruins at Petra and the Parthenon in Greece.
