Geology & Paleontology Exhibits, Conference on the Future of SI

ID: 17888-H or MAH-17888H

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: February 11, 1927

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 46, Box 32, Folder - Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Conference Exhibits (including photographs of curators and assistant curators formally posed with department exhibits)

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Summary

Physical and Chemical Geology Exhibit presented at the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian with George P. Merrill (1854-1929), curator, seated looking at the exhibit. The picture on the right hanging on the panel is identified as a "Falling Meteorite." In front of him on a long table are different types of mineral specimens. Behind him is the Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit. The exhibits were located in the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle." Merrill was a geologist and head curator of the Department of Geology, United States National Museum from 1917-1929.

Subject

  • Merrill, George P (George Perkins) 1854-1929
  • Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
  • Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian Institution
  • United States National Museum Dept. of Geology
  • National Collections

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Negative Number 17883-A for a description of the paleontology exhibits.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 46, Box 32, Folder - Tamblyn and Brown: Endowment Fund Campaign, Conference Exhibits (including photographs of curators and assistant curators formally posed with department exhibits)

Contact information

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

Date

  • February 11, 1927
  • 1927

Restrictions & Rights

Unknown

Topic

  • Curators
  • Geology
  • Physical geology
  • Meetings
  • Employees
  • Museums
  • Minerals
  • Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit
  • Meteorites
  • Geologists
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Specimens
  • Exhibitions
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees
  • Museum curators

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Person, candid
  • Exhibit

ID Number

17888-H or MAH-17888H

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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