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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Exhibit
Date:
1886
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 21
Summary:
Illustration (Fig. 7) of a branching sponge from the Department of Marine Invertebrates, Zoology, in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington". The "west hall" in the Smithsonian Institution Building, exhibited one of the finest displays in the world, of sponges, corals, echinoderms, worms and Crustacea.