Color: Sepia; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Date:
c. 1880s
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Original negative number is 47868. This appears to be a cropped and air-brushed version of negative number 11776.
Summary:
George Brown Goode (1851-1896), Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution from 1887 to 1896. An ichthyologist by training, Goode joined the staff of the Smithsonian to assist with preparations for exhibits at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and eventually became one of the leading figures in American museum theory and practice.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 9, Folder: 28B