Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley exhibit installation 1946-1964
Exhibit installation of personal and professional mementos of Smithsonian Institution Secretaries Joseph Henry (1846-1878), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878-1887), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1887-1906), and Charles D. Walcott (1907-1927). Mounted in the Castle, the Smithsonian’s headquarters building on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the display coincided with the centennial celebration of the Institution’s founding in 1846.
The exhibit was dismantled in 1964.
Division of Political History collection
SI #31645
