Edward P. Henderson Pressing Stand Magnifier on Scanner

Summary

• Edward P. Henderson (1898-1992), Curator of Meteorites, National Museum of Natural History, is holding a stand magnifier pressed against a scanning machine. Other scientific equipment is visible.
• Henderson joined the Smithsonian in 1929 as a chemist in the Geology Department of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, and upon the death George P. Merrill, head curator of the Geology Department, inherited the curation of the meteorite collection. He greatly expanded the Smithsonian's collection of meteorites during his tenure. He travelled extensively and his field work took him to Europe, Africa, the Soviet Union, the Philippines and Australia. In 1947 General Douglas MacArthur asked him to go to Japan to sort and appraise a vast cache of gemstones recovered in Tokyo by the U.S. Army.

Subject

• Henderson, Edward Porter
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences
• Natural History Building
• United States National Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975. Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
• For additional photos of Henderson examining meteorites, see Negatives SIA2009-1231, SIA2013-03962, and SIA2013-03963.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 095-13, Box 1, Folder A -Kier

Contact information

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

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Physical geology
• Mineralogy
• Employees
• Museums
• Space sciences
• Minerals
• Meteors
• Meteorites
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• Physical sciences
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Collection and preservation
• Mineralogists
• Astronomy and astrophysics
• Astronomy
• Minerals--Collection and preservation
• Museum curators
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Person, candid
• Slide

ID Number

SIA2013-03964

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 1w x 1 3.7h ; Type of Image: Person, candid ; Medium: Slide

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