Art Room in Smithsonian Institution Building (1903)
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1903
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 20
The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and paintings.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
See Field, Stamm and Ewing, The Castle: An Illustrated History, p. 46; U.S. National Museum Report 1903, p. 233.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 20
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1903
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16854 or MAH-16854
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print