Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution Building Children's Room
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building South Towers
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- The Children's Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, was created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley (1887-1906) as a natural history display area especially for children. Seen here is the large aquarium with live fish, some of the cases with natural history specimens of birds specially designed to a child's height, and bird cages. The room was intended by Secretary Langley to inspire children in the study of the natural world.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1901
- Standard number
- MAH-13391
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Children
- Natural history
- Education
- Exhibitions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7358
