Attendees at Conference on Future of Smithsonian Institution

Summary

• Gathering in the Great Hall of fifty leaders of the scientific, political and industrial life of the country at a conference held at the Smithsonian Institution in February, 1927. In the front row, left to right: Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon; Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg; President Calvin Coolidge; Chief Justice William Howard Taft; and Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot. Second row: Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf; Senator Reed Smoot; W. H. Jardine; H. Hoover; J. J. Davis; C. D. Wilbur. Third row: W. H. Welch, H. Work, W. W. Campbell; Henry Fairfield Osborn; John C. Merriam; Dwight Morrow; H. S. New. Fourth row: C. F. Brush; I. B. Laughlin; F. Walcott; C. Hamlin; Frederick A. Delano; Jesse Walter Fewkes; J. Tamblyn. Fifth Row: G. E. Vincent; H. M. Robinson; E. B. Parker, Charles F. Choate; E. W. Gifford; S. Flexner; J. G. Sargeant.
• Sixth row: J. J. Raskob; J. L. Lewton; J. Poole; unidentified; Alexander Wetmore; H. M. Lord. Seventh row: unidentified; I. M. Casanowicz; Nicholas W. Dorsey; Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris. Eighth row: unidentified; E. Rickard; unidentified; Neil M. Judd; William P. True; Walter Hough; Aleš Hrdlička. Ninth row: William L. Corbin; Paul Bartsch; Leonhard Stejneger; J. Collins; Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.; George P. Merrill; Tenth row: Unidentified; Leonard C. Gunnell; Harry W. Dorsey; John Merton Aldrich; Ray S. Bassler; James W. Gidley; Charles Elmer Resser; unidentified; F. Roberts. Eleventh row: Loyal B. Aldrich; W. R. Maxon; William M. Mann; William F. Foshag; Herbert W. Krieger. Twelfth row: Arthur H. Clark; Clarence R. Shoemaker; J. N. B. (John Napolean Brinton) Hewitt. Standing: Wayland; Prescott; C. R. Denmark; S. F. Williams; John R. Ellingston; James S. Goldsmith; and George M. Johnson.

Subject

• Coolidge, Calvin 1872-1933
• Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
• Laughlin, Irwin Boyle
• Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
• Bartsch, Paul
• Bassler, Ray S. (Ray Smith), b. 1878
• Aldrich, Loyal Blaine 1884-1965
• Mann, William M. 1886-1960
• Delano, Frederic Adrian
• Fewkes, Jesse Walter 1850-1930
• Flexner, Simon
• Ferris, Woodbridge Nathan
• Stejneger, Leonhard 1851-1943
• Dorsey, Harry W 1874-1960
• Foshag, William F
• Hamlin, Chauncey J
• Hough, Walter 1859-1935
• Hrdlička, Aleš
• Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton)
• Davis, James John
• Campbell, W. W
• Brush, Charles F
• Gifford, Walter S
• Casanowicz, Immanuel Moses
• Dorsey, Nicholas W
• Corin, William L
• Collins, J
• Gunnell, Leonard C
• Aldrich, John Merton
• Gidley, James W
• Clark, Arthur H
• Denmark, C. R
• Ellingston, John R
• Goldsmith, James S
• Mellon, Andrew W (Andrew William) 1855-1937
• Smoot, Reed 1862-1941
• Osborn, Henry Fairfield
• Merriam John Campbell
• Morrow, Dwight Whitney
• Robinson, H. M (Henry Martin) 1845-1907
• Raskob, John J (John Jakob) 1879-1950
• Lord, Herbert M
• Judd, Neil Merton
• Miller, Gerrit S., Jr
• Merrill, George P (George Perkins) 1854-1929
• Resser, Charles Elmer 1889-1943
• Roberts, Frank H. H (Frank Harold Hanna) 1897-1966
• Taft, William H. (William Howard) 1857-1930
• Welch, William Henry
• Vincent, George E
• Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964
• Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution
• United States. Secretary of the Treasury
• United States. Secretary of State
• United States President
• Chief Justice of the United States
• United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 56, Folder: 17

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1927

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Kellogg, Frank B
• Maxon, W. R
• Poole, John
• Meetings
• Secretaries
• True, William P
• Walcott, F
• Jardine, William M
• Sargeant, John G
• Mason, W. R
• New, Harry S
• Shoemaker, Clarence R
• Smithsonian Institution Building
• Work, Hubert
• Wilbur, Curtis D
• Johnson, George M
• Prescott, J. S
• Krieger, Herbert W
• Wayland
• Tamblyn, J
• Williams, S. F
• Metcalf, Jesse Houghton
• Parker, Edwin B
• Rickard, Edgar
• Great Hall
• Lewton, J. L
• Smithsonian Institution Building--Great Hall

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group

ID Number

MAH-17884A and MAH-17884A

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Medium: Photographic print

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