Robert A. Gilbert

Biography

Robert Alexander Gilbert (c. 1870 – January 7, 1942) was an African-American nature photographer and museum assistant. For more than two decades he worked as field assistant and photographic collaborator to the ornithologist William Brewster, and afterward was employed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University until his death. Although his photographic contributions were largely uncredited during his lifetime, subsequent scholarship — in particular John Hanson Mitchell's biography Looking for Mr.

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