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Physical description:
Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group
Date:
1915
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
This is an oversize photograph.
Summary:
Smithsonian Institution officials at the East Front entrance of the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle," on January 11, 1915. First row (front) left to right: Charles Doolittle Walcott (Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1927), Richard Rathbun (Assistant Secretary), George Perkins Merrill (Head Curator of Geology), Frank Baker (Superintendent, National Zoological Park), William Henry Holmes (Head Curator of Anthropology), and Harry W. Dorsey (Chief Clerk).
Middle row, left to right are: Charles Greeley Abbot (Director, Astrophysical Observatory), Leonard C. Gunnell (Assistant in Charge, International Catalogue of Scientific Literature), James G. Traylor (Appointment Clerk), Washington I. Adams (Disbursing Agent), Leonhard Steineger (Head Curator of Biology), and Paul Brockett (Assistant Librarian). Back row, left to right are: James H. Hill (Property Clerk), C. Walton Shoemaker (Chief Clerk, International Exchanges), A. Howard Clark (Editor), and Frederick W. Hodge (Ethnologist-in-Charge, Bureau of American Ethnology).
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 29, Folder 11