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Physical description:
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 7h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Stereo view
Type:
Stereoscopic view
Interior
Date:
c. 1878
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Also negative #46638-D; Published in "The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building" by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing, p. 33.
Summary:
A second bedroom of the Henry apartments in the Smithsonian Institution Building, "Castle" was in the southwest corner of the East Wing. The first Secretary of the Smithsonian Joseph Henry (1846-1878) and his family lived in the Smithsonian Institution Building.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 18
