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Accession 12-104

Glass Plate Negatives, circa 1887-1890

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
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Title:Glass Plate Negatives
Dates:circa 1887-1890
Quantity:0.12 cu. ft. (0.12 non-standard size boxes)
Collection:Accession 12-104
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of 5 x 7 inch glass plate negatives of people and places associated with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and their laboratories in the United States National Museum. People include Frank Wigglesworth Clark, W. F. Hillebrand, T. M. Chatard, William Hallock, James Edward Whitfield, Frank Austin Gooch, Carl Barus, and R. U. Riggs.

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This accession consists of 5 x 7 inch glass plate negatives of people and places associated with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and their laboratories in the United States National Museum. People include Frank Wigglesworth Clark, W. F. Hillebrand, T. M. Chatard, William Hallock, James Edward Whitfield, Frank Austin Gooch, Carl Barus, and R. U. Riggs.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 12-104, Glass Plate Negatives

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Container List

Box 1

Assay Outfit - USGS Laboratory, 1890

Box 1 of 1

W. F. Hillebrand

Box 1 of 1

Chemical Laboratory - USGS - National Museum Building, 1890 (3 views)

Box 1 of 1

Work Shop - USGS Laboratory, 1890

Box 1 of 1

Chemists and Physicists - USGS, 1887 (Frank Wigglesworth Clark, W. F. Hillebrand, T. M. Chatard, William Hallock, James Edward Whitfield, Frank Austin Gooch, Carl Barus, and R. U. Riggs)

Box 1 of 1

Gooch's Original Boric Acid Apparatus - USGS

Box 1 of 1

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