Bust of James Smithson
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Creator: Farrar, Richard
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1976
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1976
James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History. Felix de Weldon also created the Iwo Jima Memorial
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Featured in TORCH, June 1976
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1976
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1976
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75-6984-12
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Bust; Medium: Photographic print