John Henry Haynes (1849–1910)

John Henry Haynes (27 January 1849 – 29 June 1910) was an American traveller, archaeologist, and photographer, best known for his archaeological work at the first two American archaeological excavations in the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia at Nippur and Assos, described in John Henry Haynes , A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900, reissued in 2016 with new pictures as a companion to Palmyra 1885 Haynes can be regarded as the father of American archaeological photography and his corpus remains an important record of numerous archaeological sites across Ottoman Anatolia.