Official Catalogue, United States Government Building (Volume 16) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND NATIONAL MUSEUM. GENERAL EXHIBIT. Exhibit No. 1. Photograph of the Smithsonian Institution. 2. Photograph of the National Museum. 3. Portraits of Secretaries. Joseph Henry, Secretary 1846-1878. Spencer Fullerton Baird, Secretary 1878-1887. Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary 1887. 4. Publications of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Reports. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Reports of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Bulletins of the United States National Museum. Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology. Publications of the National Academy of Sciences. Reports of the American Historical Association affiliated with the Institution. Reports of Scientific Expeditions under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. 6. A Screen of Photographs, illustrating the discoveries of Professor Joseph Henry, including those which led to the invention of the electric telegraph. HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. 7. Portraits of eminent Americans. Series of engravings and photographs of eminent Americans, (Deceased) Statesmen, Jurists, Army and Navy officers, Philosophers, Naturalists, Medical Men, Clergymen, Educators, Artists, Authors, Merchants, Philanthropists, etc. 8. Portraits of members of the National Academy of Sciences. (Deposited by Dr. Marcus Benjamin.) 9. Engraved Portraits of Members of the Continental Congress, and of the Federal Convention of 1787. (Deposited by Albert Rosenthal.) 9 Exhibit No. 1o. Medals, illustrative of American History. (About four hundred and fifty specimens.) 11. Medals commemorative of Colonial events prior to 1775. 12. Medals of the Revolutionary War. 13. Collegiate and Ecclesiastical Medals. 14. Medals of Emi...