George Perkins Marsh

Summary

Portrait of George Perkins Marsh, a Representative to the United States Congress from Vermont, an advocate for use of the James Smithson bequest to create a great national library, and member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents from 1847 to 1849. This image was probably taken shortly before he left the United States to serve as U.S. Minister to Italy. Marsh was a mentor to the second Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Fullerton Baird.

Subject

• Marsh, George Perkins 1801-1882
• Board of Regents
• United States Congress House

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• The old negative number is SA-34, but that negative has been lost.
• The Library of Congress has a Brady glass wet collodion plate of this image in its Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). LC digital scan number is LC-DIG-cwpbh-02223. See http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003002686/PP/. The Library of Congress also has two other images, transferred from the U.S. War College in 1920. See http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664024/ and http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664023/. These were taken around the time when Marsh became a Regent of the Smithsonian.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 16, Folder: 61

Contact information

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

Date

1861

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Smithson Bequest
• Portraits
• Regents

Place

Vermont

Form/Genre

Photographic print

ID Number

2002-32243

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 6.5x10; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print

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