Object Details
- Author
- Unknown (Thomas W. Smillie?)
- 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
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Original negative number is MAH-4072. According to Yochelson in 'The National Museum of Natural History' (p.97), Easter Island sculptures were acquired in 1887 and installed in USNM the following year. A similar print is MAH-5793A.
- Summary
- Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906) with George Brown Goode (left) and Otis T. Mason (right) stand beside one of the Easter Island statues in the United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building.
- 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
- 1888
- Standard number
- 2002-12173 and MAH-4072
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Cyanotype; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Statues
- National Collections
- Easter Island
- Anthropology
- Exhibitions
- Asian Ethnology
- Anthropology--Asian
- Hall of Pacific and South Asian Ethnology
- Pacific and South Asian Ethnology Exhibits
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9314
