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Joseph Henry, First Secretary of the Smithsonian, by Brady & Co. (Washington, D.C.), c. 1860, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, SIA2009-1253.
JHPE Joseph Henry, First Secretary of the Smithsonian
Albany Academy Where Joseph Henry Taught, by Unknown, Unknown, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 96-4474.
JHPE Albany Academy Where Joseph Henry Taught
Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle", by Brady & Co. (Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Archives - History Div, SIA2011-1448 or 32004 or 131133 or 2002-21691.
JHPE SIB, SIA2011-1448
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Henry Family on the Smithsonian Grounds, by Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1865, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 2002-12181.
Henry Family on the Smithsonian Grounds

Take a look back in time to the life of the first Smithsonian Secretary, physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878), his family and colleagues, and the world he lived in.