Samuel P. Langley with the Easter Island Statues

Summary

Samuel 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.

Subject

• Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906
• Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896
• Mason, Otis Tufton 1838-1908
• United States National Museum
• Arts and Industries Building
• National Collections

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

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.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder 8C

Contact information

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

Date

1888

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Pacific and South Asian Ethnology Exhibits
• Secretaries
• Anthropology
• Exhibitions
• Ethnology
• Hall of Pacific and South Asian Ethnology
• Statues
• Easter Island
• Asian Ethnology
• Anthropology--Asian

Place

Easter Island

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

2002-12182 and MAH-5793A

Physical description

Color: Cyano type; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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