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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Interior
Date:
c. 1901
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is 13390, but that negative has been lost.
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