Secretary Baird's Office in Smithsonian Institution Building
Object Details
- Author
- Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917
- Subject
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building East Range
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- The original negative number is 2337, but that negative has been lost. This photo is featured in: Field, Stamm & Ewing. The Castle, An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building (p. 37).
- Summary
- The East Range Office of Secretary Spencer Baird (1878-1887), in the Smithsonian Institution Building around 1878. Baird's state of the art Wooten desk, providing a filing system with pigeon holes and writing surfaces, is visible on the far left.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 19
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1878
- Standard number
- 2002-10672
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Cyano type; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Office Space
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8125
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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