Gallery
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Print of an engraving of the library in the west end of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1857
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Library Stacks, balcony of the main hall, Smithsonian Institution Building, prior to 1914
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Library stacks in the main hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building, prior to 1914
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Library, lower main hall, Smithsonian Institution Building, 1914
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“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de Medici placed beside a milliners doll.”
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“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
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“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)