Spring 2015
Postcard / Louis Agassiz Overturned
Better in the abstract than in the concrete
![A postcard depicting a photograph of a statue that had toppled headfirst off the Stanford University Zoology building and been wedged into the ground with its feet in the air.](/issues/57/cabinet_057_postcard_1.jpg)
![The back of the postcard reads: “The great nineteenth-century Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz knocked from his perch on the façade of Stanford University’s Zoology building as a result of the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake. According to a contemporaneous account, this “man of great penetration” managed to survive the face plant with his “marble brow uninjured.” Courtesy California State Library.”](/issues/57/cabinet_057_postcard_2.jpg)
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