Number of Images: 1; Color: Color transparency; Size: 1.5w x 1h; Type of Image: Person; Medium: Photographic print
Date:
1975
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
For additional photos of Henderson examining meteorites, see Negatives SIA2013-03962, SIA2013-03963, and SIA2013-03964.,
Summary:
Edward P. Henderson (1898-1992), Curator of Meteorites, National Museum of Natural History, is holding a meteorite in his right hand as he enters data into a scanning machine. Other scientific equipment is visible.
Henderson joined the Smithsonian in 1929 as a chemist in the Geology Department of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, and upon the death George P. Merrill, head curator of the Geology Department, inherited the curation of the meteorite collection. He greatly expanded the Smithsonian's collection of meteorites during his tenure. He travelled extensively and his field work took him to Europe, Africa, the Soviet Union, the Philippines and Australia. In 1947 General Douglas MacArthur asked him to go to Japan to sort and appraise a vast cache of gemstones recovered in Tokyo by the U.S. Army.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 095-13, Box 1, Folder A -Kier
