Joseph Henry's Daughter Caroline

ID: 82-3254

Creator: Addis, R.W. (Washington, D.C.)

Form/Genre: Card photograph

Date: c. 1855

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 81

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Summary

Harriet Alexander and Joseph Henry's daughter Caroline (1839-1920). Joseph Henry (1797-1878), was a physicist and the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878. She was the youngest of the Henry's four children.

Subject

Henry, Joseph 1797-1878

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Small prints file. The photograph was sent by Dorothea Dix in October of 1882.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 81

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1855

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Secretaries
  • Portraits
  • Henry, Caroline
  • History
  • Women--History

Form/Genre

Card photograph

ID Number

82-3254

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 2.25w x 4h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Card photograph

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