Apparatus Room in the Smithsonian Institution Building
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1857
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 27
Print of an engraving of the Apparatus Room of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle," with the electrical machines constructed by Dr. Robert Hare, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hare donated his collection of chemical and physical apparatus to the Institution in 1848. Men and women are talking and walking around. The engraving was published in the Smithsonian Guidebook of 1857.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 27
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1857
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SIA2011-2394 or 43804-G
Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White ; Size: 7.5w x 5.5h ; Type of Image: Interior; Engraving ; Medium: Photographic print