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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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