Harden Franklin Taylor (left) and Bernard Godwin (right)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4057]
Creator: New York Academy of Sciences
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1948
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-4057
At the New York Academy of Sciences 131st annual dinner and meeting, December 16, 1948, Dr. Harden Franklin Taylor (1890-1966) (left), retiring Academy president, accepted on behalf of the Academy, a portrait of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin and honorary life member of the Academy, from artist Bernard Godwin (1900-1967) (right). Godwin executed the work in London, at the request of an anonymous donor.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-4057
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4057]
Gelatin silver prints; 7.79 x 9.60