Servant of Savants: James Gant's Long Career in Employ of Scientists

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Summary

Popular anecdotal piece about the first African-American to work for the United States National Museum, James Thomas Gant. Explores Gant's relationships with the first three Secretaries.

Subject

  • Gant, James Thomas
  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
  • Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

From Record Unit 7081, Box 44, Folder 35 in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Please note that this piece reflects the sentiment of the period and paints a rather derogatory portrait of James T. Gant and African- American workers in general.

Contained within

Washington Post (Newspaper)

Contact information

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

Date

June 10, 1900

Topic

  • Secretaries
  • SI, Early History
  • African Americans

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