Subject:

Hillers, John K. 1843-1925  Search this

Powell, John Wesley 1834-1902  Search this

Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917  Search this

Arts and Industries Building)  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Smithsonian Institution Building Laboratory of Natural History  Search this

United States Geological Survey (USGS)  Search this

United States National Museum  Search this

Place:

North America

Date:

1882

Category:

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes:

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1882. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1884, p. 7.

Summary:

The photographic work of employees of Major John Wesley Powell, in connection with the United States Geological Survey and Bureau of Ethnology, is moved into the space in the Laboratory of Natural History vacated by Thomas W. Smillie. Mr. John K. Hillers, photographer, has utilized the rooms in the preparation of enlarged photographs of the scenery and aborigines of the West for the windows of the National Museum. It is proposed to introduce these photographs in a large number of the windows of the museum building.

Contact information:

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic:

Anthropology  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Ethnology  Search this

Photography  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

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