Steamship Used to Carry James Smithson's Remains to the US
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Creator: Bell, Mabel
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1904
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 5E, Folder 7
The steamship Princess Irene in the harbour at Genoa, Italy in January 1904. The ship sailed for New York on January 7, 1904 carrying Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel and James Smithson's remains. Notified that the cemetery, where Smithson was buried, near Genoa, Italy was to be destroyed, Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel went to Italy to oversee the exhumation of Smithson's remains and their transfer to Washington, D.C.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 5E, Folder 7
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1904
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Genoa (Italy)
90-9025
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Other; Medium: Photographic print