Langley with Easter Island Statues

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Object Details

Author

Unknown (Thomas W. Smillie?)

Subject

Langley, S. P (Samuel Pierpont) 1834-1906

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown) 1851-1896

Mason, Otis Tufton 1838-1908

United States National Museum

Arts and Industries Building

Notes

Original negative number is MAH-4072. According to Yochelson in 'The National Museum of Natural History' (p.97), Easter Island sculptures were acquired in 1887 and installed in USNM the following year. A similar print is MAH-5793A.

Summary

Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906) with George Brown Goode (left) and Otis T. Mason (right) stand beside one of the Easter Island statues in the United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder 8C

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1888

Standard number

2002-12173 and MAH-4072

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Group, candid

Physical description

Color: Cyanotype; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Secretaries

Statues

National Collections

Easter Island

Anthropology

Exhibitions

Asian Ethnology

Anthropology--Asian

Hall of Pacific and South Asian Ethnology

Pacific and South Asian Ethnology Exhibits

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_9314