Samuel P. Langley with the Easter Island Statues
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintSamuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), George Brown Goode (left) and Otis T. Mason (right) standing in the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), beside one of the Easter Island statues.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Original negative number is MAH-5793A. A similar print is negative number MNH-4072. According to Ellis Yochelson in the publication 'The National Museum of Natural History' (p.97), Easter Island sculptures were acquired in 1887 and installed the following year.
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
2002-12182 and MAH-5793A
Color: Cyano type; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print