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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Person, candid
Exhibit
Date:
February 11, 1927
1927
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
See Negative Number 17883-A for identification of the specimens and pictures in the Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit.
Summary:
Physical and Chemical Geology Exhibit at the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, February 11, 1927, with George P. Merrill (1854-1929), Curator, standing with his hand on the back of chair looking at the exhibit panel. There are two large pictures on the panel with the one on the right labeled: "A Falling Meteorite." In front of Merrill, laid out on a table, are different types of mineral specimens. At his back is the Vertebrate Paleontology Exhibit. The exhibits were located in the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle." Merrill was a geologist and head curator of the Department of Geology, United States National Museum from 1917-1929.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder 9