Freer Offers Collection to SI
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PrintCharles Lang Freer first offers his art collection to the Smithsonian Institution. President Theodore Roosevelt has to convince the Board of Regents to accept, and the formal deed of gift is signed May 5, 1906.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Oehser, Paul H. The Smithsonian Institution. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, p. 141.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 3, 1905