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The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum: The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh

Author:
Burleigh, Nina  Search this
Subject:
Smithson, James 1765-1829  Search this
Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
298 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
History
Date:
2003
©2003
Topic:
Science museums--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_717869

R. Rush : (to accompany bill H.R. no. 479), June 8, 1842 ... : report [of] the Committee of Claims ..

Author:
United States Congress House Committee on Claims  Search this
Subject:
Rush, Richard 1780-1859  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
14, [2] p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1842
1842]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397444

The Smithsonian Institution : debate in the Senate of the United States, January 18, 1855, on the letter of Hon. Rufus Choate, concerning the management of the Smithsonian Institution

Author:
United States Congress (33rd, 2nd Session, : 1854-1855) Senate  Search this
Choate, Rufus 1799-1859  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
14, [2] p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1855
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397470

History of the Smithsonian Institution : formation and transformation of the Smithsonian museum of science and technology / Yuzo Takahashi and Eiju Matsumoto

Title:
Formation and transformation of the Smithsonian museum of science and technology
Author:
Takahashi, Yuzo  Search this
Matsumoto, Eiju 1935-  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. : ill., port. ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2001
Call number:
Q11.S6 T34 2001
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_739594

26th Congress, 1st session. H.R. 1 ... : bill to provide for the disposal and management of the fund bequeathed by James Smithson to the United States, for the establishment of an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men ..

Author:
United States Congress (26th, 1st session : 1840) House  Search this
Subject:
Smithson, James 1765-1829  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Smithsonian Institution Law and legislation  Search this
Physical description:
7, [1] p. ; 30 cm. folded to 20 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1840
1840]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397434

Report of the special committee of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, on the distribution of the income of the Smithsonian fund, &c. ..

Author:
Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents  Search this
Pearce, James Alfred 1804-1862  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
21, [1] p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1854
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397464

The Smithsonian Institution : speech of Hon. J. Meacham, of Vermont / delivered in the House of Representatives, March 3, 1855, in reply to the speech of Hon. William H. English, of Indiana, on the management of the Smithsonian Institution ..

Author:
Meacham, James 1810-1856  Search this
United States Congress House  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
4 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1855
1855]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397472

Oral history project interviews with Edward P. Henderson, Curator Emeritus, Division of Meteorites, Department of Mineral Sciences

Author:
Henderson, Edward P (Edward Porter) 1898-  Search this
Henson, Pamela M  Search this
Smithsonian Archives  Search this
Subject:
Henderson, Edward P (Edward Porter) b. 1898  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
5 v. : ill ; 28 cm
Type:
Interviews
Sources
Place:
United States
Date:
1988
[1988]
20th century
Topic:
Mineralogists  Search this
Meteorites  Search this
Hope diamond  Search this
Meteoritics  Search this
Call number:
QE361.H46 A5 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_912393

27th Congress, 2d session. S.224 ... : a bill to invest the proceeds of the Smithsonian fund, and to establish the Smithsonian Institution ..

Author:
United States Congress (27th, 2nd session) Senate  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
3, [1] p. ; 30 cm. folded to 21 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1842
1842]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397441

Smithsonian bequest : (to accompany amendatory bill H.R. no. 1) March 5, 1840 ..

Author:
United States Congress (26th, 1st session : 1840) House  Search this
Subject:
Smithson, James 1765-1829  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
155, [1] p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1840
[1840]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397435

An account of the Smithsonian Institution : presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Education, at its annual meeting, held in Pittsburg, Pa., August 10th, 1853 / by Professor Joseph Henry, LL.D ..

Author:
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
15, [1] p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1854
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397462

Report of Hon. James Meacham, of the special committee of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution : on the distribution of the income of the Smithsonian fund, &c

Author:
Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents  Search this
Meacham, James 1810-1856  Search this
Former owner:
Boston Athenaeum DSI  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
63, [1] p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1854
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397466

George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian museums : a national museum of cultural history / Edward P. Alexander

Author:
Alexander, Edward P. 1907-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1983
Topic:
Museum curators  Search this
Call number:
AM7 .A5 1983X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1053353

Report of Hon. William H. Witte : from the committee of the House of Representatives, to which was referred the letter of the Hon. Rufus Choate, on the Smithsonian Institution

Author:
United States Congress House Select Committee on Smithsonian Institution  Search this
Witte, William Henry 1817-1876  Search this
Choate, Rufus 1799-1859  Search this
Jewett, Charles C (Charles Coffin) 1816-1868  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
19, [1], 218 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1855
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397474

Smithsonian bequest : (to accompany bill H.R. no. 187) January 19, 1836 ..

Author:
United States Congress (24th, 1st session : 1836) House  Search this
Subject:
Smithson, James 1765-1829  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
8 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1836
[1836]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397430

31st Congress, 2d session. S.433 ... : a bill supplementary to ... "an act to establish the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men ... "

Author:
United States Congress (31st, 2nd session : 1851) Senate  Search this
United States Congress Senate Committee on Finance  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
2 p. ; 30 cm. folded to 21 cm
Type:
Books
Sources
Date:
1851
1851]
Call number:
Q11.S6 U522 1836
Q11.S6U522 1836
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_397460

Exhibiting race, creating nation : representations of Black history and culture at the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1976 / by Michèle Gates Moresi

Title:
Representations of Black history and culture at the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1976
Author:
Gates Moresi, Michèle  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution Exhibitions History  Search this
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 264 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
2003
Topic:
African Americans--History  Search this
African Americans--Race identity  Search this
Museum exhibits--Political aspects  Search this
Museum exhibits--Social aspects  Search this
Call number:
E185.625 .M67 2003a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_925032

The Smithsonian Institution building

Author:
Goode, James M  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
14 p. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1971
Call number:
AM101.S666 G647
AM101.S666G647
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_87299

1846 : portrait of the nation / Margaret C.S. Christman

Title:
Portrait of the nation
Author:
Christman, Margaret C. S  Search this
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
xx, 211 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1996
1783-1865
Topic:
Civilization  Search this
Call number:
E166 .C5 1996X
E166.C5 1996X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_488748

Science in the Sub-arctic : traders, trappers, and the Smithsonian Institution, 1859-1870 / by Debra J. Lindsay

Author:
Lindsay, Debra  Search this
Subject:
Smithsonian Institution History  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 416 leaves ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Arctic regions
North America
Date:
1989
19th century
Topic:
Research--History  Search this
Natural history  Search this
Scientists  Search this
Naturalists  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
Q180.A6 L56 1989
Q180.A6L56 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_434028

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