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	Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c. 1865.
The interior of the Smithsonian Institution Building showing the Music Room of the apartments of Secretary Joseph Henry and family, 1862. Photograph by Titian R. Peale.
	The artist's studio of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian, in the East Range of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c. 1878. Photograph by Smithsonian photographer Thomas W. Smillie.
One of the bedrooms of the Henry apartments in the east end of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c. 1878. Photograph by Smithsonian photographer Thomas W. Smillie.
	The Dining Room of the Henry apartments in the east end of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1862. Photograph by Titian R. Peale.

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