This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Smithsonian tale of James Smithson and the beacon he built
A long account recounts James Smithson a British chemist and donor who left his fortune to the United States establishing the Smithsonian Institution. It covers his will the transfer of his body to Washington the governance structure of the establishment and its private funding model and calls for greater endowment to sustain research and publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
Englshman
Djunes
A. M
Wembroke College
Oxford
Royal Society
Jig
England
James Smithson
Genoa
San Benigno
Englishiman
Janes Smithson
United States of America
Todd
Washington
Tamas Smithson
Hugh Smithson
Percy
Duke of Northumberland
Tames Smithson
Perey
Smithson
United States
America
Congress
Smithsonian Institution
Exander
Graham Teil
Percys
Doctor Bell
Tenth Street
Capitol City
Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
State
Chan
Cellor
Swithsonian
Board of Regents
Calvin Coolidge
Taft
Phice
Lodge
Charles D. Watcott
United States Reclamation Service
Carnegie Institute
UK National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
National Research Council
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Wature Lever
National Park
National Conference On Outdoor Recreation
Smithsonian
National Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery
Freer Gallery of Art
Charles Lang Steer
Bureau of American Ethnology
Hawaii
Cualifornia
Ati Fona
Chile
Charles G. Abbot
Fumous
Asia
Africa
National Geographical Society
International Exchange Service
Internationa
London
National Zoological Park
Trock Creek Valley
Gailury of Art
Sun
Carnegié Institution
Teresn
Dwight P. Morrow
Morrow
Chic
Dawes