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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, also known simply as the Smithsonian, is a trust instrumentality of the United States composed as a group of museums and research centers. It was founded on August 10, 1846, "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the "United States National Museum", but that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967.

"I then bequeath the whole of my property...to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge..."
- James Smithson (1765-1829)

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  • Cover of: Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of Periodical Works: Belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, January 1, 1866. Deposited in the Library of Congress

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Smithsonian Institution, History, Exhibitions, Bibliography, Science, Learned institutions and societies, Periodicals, Pictorial works, Smithsonian institution, Juvenile literature, Literary and scientific Exchanges, Catalogs, Guidebooks, Exchanges, Literary and scientific, Meteorology, Collection and preservation, Finance, Tables, Birds, Exchange of publications, Experiments, Indians of North America, Natural history, Scientific recreations, Antiquities

Places

United States, Washington (D.C.), North America, America, Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico), D.C. Washington, Mexico, New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Africa, Amérique du Nord, California, Central America, Colorado River, Confederate States of America, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Germany, Germany (West), Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Mall, The (Washington, D.C.), New York (État)

People

Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Armand Hammer (1898-1990), Charles D. Walcott (1850-1927), Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), Charles Sheeler, Charles W. Dahlgreen, Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), George Engelmann (1809-1884), Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878-1930), Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), James Monroe (1758-1831), Jean Louis Berlandier (d. 1851), John Constable (1776-1837), John Reed Swanton (1873-1958), John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), Paul Manship (1885-1966), Robert Evans Snodgrass (1875-), S. P. Langley (1834-1906), Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), Tutankhamen King of Egypt

Time

1815-1861, 1854, 1945-, 1961-1975, 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865

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