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Solomon Brown, First African American
Employee at the Smithsonian

Mary Henry
Diaries,
Eyewitness to the Civil War

William H. Dall, Alaskan Explorer

The Wright Brothers,
Pioneers in Aviation

Robert H.
Goddard,
American Rocket
Pioneer

James Smithson, Founder of the Smithsonian

James Renwick, Jr., Architect of
the Smithsonian
Building

William Temple Hornaday
Saving the American Bison

Wilson A. Bentley
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of Snowflakes

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	Spencer Fullerton Baird,1823-1887, was an ornithologist and the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1878-1887.
Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, later the International Exchange Service, gathered on the steps of the east entrance of the Smithsonian Institution Building on July 10, 1891. From L-R, (top): George L. Snider, John S. Pollock, George Boehmer, William C. Winlock, Mazie R. Fountaine, Thomas Watkins; (bottom): Edward Daniel Hardy, Solomon G. Brown, Henry A. Parker, Coates Walton Shoemaker, George C. French, Oliver C. Hine, Ferdinand V. Berry, Morsell A. Tolson.
	Deliveries to the International Exchange Service, south facade (South Yard) of the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle." Here "Exchange" employees unload wooden boxes into the basement, where a freight lift was constructed in 1884.
Visitors in the Lower Main Hall, or the Great Hall, of the Smithsonian Institution Building, looking east, 1867.
	Engraving of the Laboratory of Natural History in the East Range of the Smithsonian Institution Building, the "Castle," which was open for study of natural history specimens.

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