Browse more Fine Art Prints
Portrait of a Drawer
Browse more Fine Art Prints
Photograph by Thomas William Smillie (1843–1917) who was designated “custodian” of the Smithsonian Institution’s photographic “specimens” in 1896 — a position we might now call curator of photography — it was the first such appointment at any museum in the United States, and perhaps in the world. (Source: Smithsonian)