Langley with Easter Island Statues
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Creator: Unknown (Thomas W. Smillie?)
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1888
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder 8C
Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906) with George Brown Goode (left) and Otis T. Mason (right) stand beside one of the Easter Island statues in the United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Original negative number is MAH-4072. According to Yochelson in 'The National Museum of Natural History' (p.97), Easter Island sculptures were acquired in 1887 and installed in USNM the following year. A similar print is MAH-5793A.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder 8C
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1888
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Easter Island
2002-12173 and MAH-4072
Color: Cyanotype; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print