The Smithsonian Institution Libraries in

1999

Fiscal Year October 1, 1998-September 30, 1999

A

nyone with an Internet connection can now

consult one of the treasures from the

Libraries’ collection instead of making a trip

to Washington. Tom Garnett, Assistant Director of

Information Systems, heads the effort to publish online

digital editions of selections from the Libraries’ rich

collections. Six titles, three in the history of science and

technology and three in natural history, are available on

the Libraries’ home page. Thanks to start-up funding

from the Smithsonian’s Atherton Seidell Endowment

Fund which supports dissemination of previously

published scientific research, and the Jaques Admiralty

Law Firm of Detroit, Michigan, the Libraries purchased

equipment for a digital Imaging Center which opened

March 2. The center, overseen by Susan Blaine, head

of the Libraries’ Preservation Services Department, is

equipped with a digital camera, flat-bed scanner,

computers, and software. 

The online publications — or Digital Editions —

faithfully reproduce the book’s contents from cover to

cover, including blank pages. And SIL staff have added

much value in the form of biographical indexes and

other navigational tools to help readers use the books

successfully. Says Garnett, “Production of each digital

volume is a team effort involving the intellectual and

technical skills of SIL’s librarians, specialists, and

technicians.” Works in the pipeline include Simiarum 

et Vespertilion Brasiliensium species novae (1823) by

Johann Baptiste von Spix (pictured above), an early

volume with descriptions of new species of Brazilian

monkeys and bats, valuable to researchers in the

National Museum of Natural History. 

See ‘Click Here’, p. 3, for online publications.

IN 1999...

Imaging Center Opens 

Services to Our Users 

Click Here ~www.sil.si.edu 

How We Make It Happen 

They Came

...To Learn About an American Lib

...To Use the Collections 

Programs and Contributions 

Supporting the Libraries’ Efforts 

Spencer Baird Society 

Charter Members 

Photo Credits 

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

David Holbert scanning in the Imaging Center

IMAGING CENTER OPENS IN 1999
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SERVICES TO OUR USERS

THE LIBRARIES IN FISCAL YEAR 1999 ➣ 19 Branch Libraries 

(18 open, Natural History Rare Book

Library to open in 2001)

➣ 1,220,101 volumes in collection

➣ 6,485 journal subscriptions

➣ 186,402 microfilm and -fiche items

➣ 2,103 linear feet of manuscripts

➣ 7,682 acquisition purchase orders prepared

➣ 10,599 titles cataloged

➣ 327 e (electronic) titles cataloged

➣ 9,700 journal issues checked in

➣ 8,470 volumes bound and boxed

➣ 161 brittle books microfilmed

GIFT & EXCHANGE PROGRAM (G&E)

Includes G&E programs operating from Washingon

and from the STRI (Panama) and Cooper-Hewitt

(New York) Branches

➣ 4,754 G&E exchange partners in 50 states and

145 countries

➣ 3,379 journals and serials received on G&E

exchange

➣ 7,259 gift books received

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

Eleven SIL staff published, in print and online, 3 bibliographies, a cataloging guide, 6 bibliographic and

scholarly introductions, 6 articles and published presentations, 35 biographical entries in reference works, 21

reviews, and published 15 monthly columns in professional newsletters. These authors on the Libraries’ staff

are Ron Brashear, Timothy Carr, Elaine Cline,

Margaret R. Dittemore, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Ned

O. Kraft, Alvin Hutchinson, Leslie Overstreet,

Sheila Riley, Lucien R. Rossignol, and Valerie J.

Wheat. Margaret R. Dittemore also co-authored an

online exhibition produced by staff of Smithsonian’s

Department of Anthropology, Libraries and Archives.

INFORMATION SERVICE IN THE

BRANCH LIBRARIES

➣ 55,383 Reference questions answe

branch staff 

➣ 96,480 Library materials consulted 

on–site in the branches

➣ 109,419 Circulation transactions (ite

out or renewed)

LOANS OF LIBRARIES’ MATERIALS

➣ 10,776 Interlibrary loans of books 

to institutions in all 50 state

Rico, and 17 countries

➣ 25 volumes loaned for exhibiti

Smithsonian Institution Trav

Exhibition Service (SITES) 

museums in 1 foreign and 

CORC’S EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE T

CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Cata

cooperative effort of OCLC libraries who are 

high-quality database of web-site description

fields of interest. CORC will help Internet use

and find needed information quickly and effi

Libraries is participating with approximately 

libraries from around the world in this OCLC 

AWARD

Lowell Ashley received a Special Achiev

Award from the Music Library Association fo

on Cataloging Musical Moving Image Mate

Director Nancy E. Gwinn established an Informati

Division headed by Tom Garnett who was named 

Director, Information Systems Division. Garnett ov

digitial initiatives and the computer systems. Show

Executive Committee members Assistant Directors 

Augusta Thomas who heads the Management and 

Services Division, Bonita D. Perry who heads the 

Services Division, Gwinn, and Garnett. 

The Libraries opened its eighteenth branch at the National

Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Center in

Suitland, Maryland. See Information #87 for appointment of

Librarian Ruby Hamilton

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Click here

www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/

Online-Exhibitions

➣ Library and Archival Exhibitions on t

links to more than 800 online and archival ex

“In one clean list, the site opens the door 

the best that libraries have to offer.” - Library

the Month, July 1999 (www.libraryspot.com)

LibrarySpot focuses on contributions to the l

munity. This online exhibition project, starte

University of Houston in 1995, was revived b

Shaw and re-launched on the Libraries’ web

Click here

http://ericir.syr.edu

at ERIC (Educational Resources

Information Clearinghouse), Depa

of Education, document ED428772

➣ Timothy Carr and Debra Shumate, co

“Postal Service in Colonial America: A Biblio

Material in the Smithsonian Institution Librar

National Postal Museum Branch.” Republish

Philatelic Literature Review 47, no. 1 (199

Click here 

www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/laexped

➣ Smithsonian Expeditions, a bi-lingual, 

media website to highlight people and event

years of Smithsonian research in Latin Amer

collections of the Libraries, the Anthropolog

Department and the Smithsonian Archives, c

by Jane Walsh, Margaret Dittemore, and P

Henson (based on a 1996 exhibition held at 

American Development Bank)

LIBRARIES’ ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

In its Imaging Center, the Libraries produced five

digital editions of rare books, originally published from

the 16th to the 19th centuries, in the fields of astronomy,

physical science, and natural history. Ron Brashear,

Curator of Science and Technology Rare Books, and

Leslie Overstreet, Curator of Natural History Rare

Books, prepared the introductions for the works in their

respective fields. David Holbert, Conrad Ziyad, and

Shawn Adams of the Preservation Services Department

digitized the volumes, and Martin Kalfatovic and

Courtney Danforth of the Information Systems Division

prepared the navigational tools and indexes.

Click here

www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections

➣ Jacques Dauphinois Besson, Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum (1578), Digital Edition, 1999

➣ Tycho Brahe, Astronomæ instauratæ mechanica

(1602), Digital Edition, 1999

➣ Christiaan Huygens, Systema Saturnium (1659),

Digital Edition, 1999

➣ Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky, Prodromus

in Systema Historicum Testaceorum. (1795 [1801

issue]). Digital Edition. 1999

➣ José Dionisio Larreátegui, Description Botanique

du Chiranthodendron (1805). Digital Edition, 1999

Click here

www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/

Anthropology-K12

➣ Anthropology Branch Librarian Maggie Dittemore’s

website, Anthropology on the Internet for K-12 (1999),

designated the “best online resource for anthropology students” by the WWW Virtual Library, is an annotated listing of

hotlinks to selected websites offered as part of the

Smithsonian effort to support and advance education for

diverse audiences

Libraries Home Page www.sil.si.edu

“Another equatorial

armillary instrument”

from Tycho Brahe 

(1602)

In FY 1999, the SIL www site logged 

3.8 million hits.

CLICK HERE WWW.SIL.SI.EDU
HOW WE MAKE IT HAPPEN

OUR THANKS TO OUR PRODUCTIVE AND

LOYAL VOLUNTEERS

And to VIARC, the Smithsonian Visitor Information

and Associates’ Reception Center, for coordinating 

volunteer activities.

Acquisitions Services Department

Rita Hunter Ellen Unumb

Preservation Services Department, Book

Conservation Laboratory

Patricia Brennan Joan Gilder 

Jahanvi Desai Eliza Gilligan 

Rebecca Elder Spencer Haynsworth

Jennifer Engelbach Claire Mason 

Luci Geller

Botany Branch 

Karla Farrall 

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Branch

Edith MacGuire Fran Smyth

Margery Masinter Louise Ufland 

Renata Rutledge Griselda Warr 

Horticulture Branch

Ann McIntire Barbara Robinson

Marian Tebben

Information Systems Division

Helen Nordberg Henry Zoller 

Museum Reference Center

Christine Mayer 

National Air and Space Museum Branch

Agnes Counihan Grace Engeler

Robert Dreesen Patricia Squire

National Museum of African Art Branch

Ahmed Achrat Nancy Nooter

Evalyn Carter Lucienne Orosch

Ruth Chandler Lillian Pharr

Jody Jeweler Betty Smith

Karen Lee Lillian Vaughan

Sherrie Nagin Sherri Watkins

THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Funding Sources, FY 1999

$6,711,004 Federal appropriation

777,000 Trust Fund allocations

763,569 Gifts and grants

39,843 Endowments income

Expenditures, FY 1999

$4,782,866 Personnel costs

1,710,471 Library materials (colle

707,131 Program Support (OCL

equipment, renovation, 

102,000 Cataloging Support

30,221 Staff Development

24,190 Miscellaneous

10,332 Public programs

THE HUMAN RESOURCES

109 Staff (full time equivale

1 Librarian for Latino Re

(funded by Smithsonia

Latino Initiatives)

3 Visiting Guest Librarian

Australia, Kenya and Po

50 Volunteers

8 Interns

7 Student workers

National Museum of American Histor

Betty Spungen 

National Museum of Natural History 

Joan Horn Eileen Sho

National Postal Museum Branch

Heinz Gerstle Ruth Richa

Samuel Pringle Herbert Tr

Office of the Director

Ben Axleroad Jennifer En

Special Collections Department

Marilyn Barth

APPOINTMENT

Tracy-ann Suleiman, appointed

in August Librarian of the Anacostia

Museum & Center for African

American History and Culture

Branch, will develop the Libraries’

collection of materials about the

experiences of African American history and culture in Washington, D.C. and throughout the

Western hemisphere. Ms. Suleiman has a B.A. in African

American Studies from William Smith College, an M.A.

from the University at Albany in Africana Studies, and an

M.L.S. from the University at Albany. During the period of

renovation at the Anacostia Museum, the Branch Library

will operate from the Center for African American

History and Culture in the Arts & Industries Building.

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...TO USE LIBRARIES’ COLLECTIO

Smithsonian Institution Fellows w

under the supervision of Libraries

Janin Hadlaw, Cooper-Hewitt, National Des

Museum Branch Library and National Museu

American History Branch Library 

Joanna Grabski, National Museum of Afric

Branch Library

1999 SIL Dibner Library Resident 

Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, Ph.D. candid

American Studies at the University of Texas a

writing her dissertation on American strategi

late 1800s to increase human energy through 

ical and industrial sources. An important are

research is the metaphor of the body as a m

American medicine. Assuming “that industria

metaphors would have appeared only after th

she found in the Dibner Library “textbooks a

the 1840s comparing the body to industrial e

John Rennie Short, Professor of Geograph

Syracuse University, examined a number of e

in the Dibner Library in order to better unde

traditions of the early, pre-modern geograph

of a larger plan to publish a book, Alternati

Geographies. He reported, “My initial aims w

at the emergence of a separate geography di

from the cosmographical texts of the late 15

centuries. I want to see how a specific acade

pline emerged from a comprehensive view o

The Dibner Library has a wonderful collectio

graphical sources, especially the variety of ed

standard works by Petrus Appian and Orono

Prompted by links discovered in my researc

the availability of key texts in the Dibner Libr

focus widened to explore 16th- and early 17

development of surveying and navigation. I th

been successful in establishing the outlines o

cosmographical model that held sway across 

almost a century, serving as the basis for the

Renaissance scientific world view.”

See Information # 86 for the third 1999 r

scholar, Gregory A. Wickliff. The Resident Scho

is supported by The Dibner Fund.

...TO LEARN ABOUT AN AMERICAN LIBRARY

Visiting Guest Professionals

Roxanne Missingham, Director of Information

Services, National Library of Australia, to the Natural and

Physical Sciences Department

Ashah Owano, Head Librarian, National Museum 

of Kenya, to National Museum of Natural History 

Branch Library

Agnieska B. Koszowska, Librarian, Biblioteka Slaska,

Katowice, Poland, and Soros Fellow, to Acquisitions

Services Department 

Post Graduate Professional Residency for

Latino Research funded by the

Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives

Mario Ascencio, National Museum of American

History Branch Library, and rotations through all

Libraries’ Departments

Interns

➣ Camilla Arcangioli, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design

Museum Branch Library

➣ Kindera Chase, National Museum of African Art

Branch Library

➣ Martha Conners, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design

Museum Branch Library

➣ John Lee Curtis, Information Systems Division

➣ Elizabeth Houck, Dibner Library of the History of

Science and Technology

➣ Cathy Serifica, National Museum of American History

Branch Library 

➣ Erin Tyburski, Horticulture Branch Library

➣ Christine Winkler, Information Systems Division and

National Museum of American History Branch Library

THEY CAME...

John Rennie Short (seated), Carolyn de la Pena, and Ron

Brashear, Curator of Science and Technology Rare Books

Since 1992 The Dibner Fund has annua

ed support for a total of nineteen scholars t

Washington and conduct their research in t

Library of the History of Science and Techn
supported acquisition of 562 books, many t

requested by Smithsonian scholars to suppo

and new research projects.

Cooper-Hewitt Branch Supported 

Parsons Program Alumni Appeal

The first-ever appeal for support to alum

Parsons Graduate Program in the History of 

Decorative Arts resulted in almost $16,000 f

tions for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design 

Branch Library. Students from the Parsons P

the resources of both the Cooper-Hewitt Mus

SIL’s Cooper-Hewitt Branch Library extensivel

alumni continue their use of the library as th

on to careers in the design world or pursue a

and personal research.

Award

The Smithsonian

Women’s Committee

awarded the Libraries two

preservation grants totaling

almost $16,000. One grant

is to purchase 840

protective custom-made

enclosures for rehousing

natural history rare books

providing both immediate

and long-term protection

for these valuable

resources. The second

grant funds the

preservation of an

exceptionally rare set of

19th-century plates on

French furniture, wallcovering, and textile des

Garde-Meuble: Ancien et Moderne (Paris, 18

Book Donations

Eleanor Smallwood Niebell made a signif

over 150 books, pamphlets, and documents 

National Museum of the American Indian Br

Collected over many years by her late husban

Niebell, a claims attorney who worked for tr

including the Seminole, the Creek, and the Y

materials are a welcome contribution to buil

research collection at the new branch library

The Dibner Library of the History of Scien

Technology received a generous donation fro

Dunn Kaufmann of 11 rare volumes relating 

cine, dating from 1585 to 1843. The books w

lected by her parents, physicians in Czechosl

had brought them along when they emigrate

United States.

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PROGRAMS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

PROGRAMS

The Libraries organized

a public symposium on

“Edward S. Curtis and The

North American Indian

Re- viewed” with support

from the National

Anthropological Archives

and the National Museum

of the American Indian. The

event was held on November

16, 1998, during Native

American Month in conjunction with the Libraries’ exhibition on Edward S. Curtis,

Frontier Photographer (on view in the Libraries

Exhibition Gallery September 1998-September 1999),

curated by the Libraries’ William E. Baxter. 

The 1999 Dibner Library Lecture, supported by The

Dibner Fund, featured Charles Brownell speaking on

“Horrors! Changing Views of the American Victorian

House.” The May 21 lecture was part of the Washington

Collegium for the Humanities lecture series on Shifting

Perspectives on History, Culture and the Arts. 

The Smithsonian Associates launched a series of lectures on “Authors Working in the Smithsonian Libraries”

(January 24 and March 25). The first two lecturers,

Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner and Russell Flinchum, both

worked in the collections in the Cooper-Hewitt National

Design Museum Branch.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Gifts and Pledges FY 1999

The Libraries raised over $450,000 in gifts and

pledges in FY 1999 from individuals, corporations, and

foundations. Highlights include new funds pledged for a

preservation endowment and for enlargement of a resident scholar program, gifts to enhance the S. Dillon Ripley

Library Endowment, funds for the Natural History Rare

Book Library, support for acquisitions at several branches,

exhibition support, and funds for digital library projects.

Ripley Endowment Surpasses Half-Million

Dollar Mark

Additional gifts and strong market growth enabled

the S. Dillon Ripley Library Endowment to grow to

$503,677 in FY 1999. Endowment income allowed the

Libraries to purchase 118 books for 15 of the Libraries’

branches this year. Subjects ranged from the language of

the Aleutian Islanders and 18th-century English porcelain to the impact of climate variability on forests. Since

its inception in 1993, the Ripley Library Endowment has

“Chaise de Fant

Garde Meuble: A

Moderne (Paris

preserved with 

Women’s Comm

Edward S. Curtis, “Atsina

Camp [Montana, 1909],” The

North American Indian, v. 5,

plate 175 (1909)
SUPPORTING THE LIBRARIES’ EFFORTS

Norbert Aas

Agbenyega Adedze

Rita J. Adrosko

John-Tokpabere Agberia

Richard Ahlborn

Oseha Ajokpaezi

Jaime Soto Aliaga

Monica Alvarado

Dunston P. Ambrose

Joallyn Archambault

Mercedes Arroyo

Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales

Sei-ichi Awano

Stephen Bach

Mary W. Ballard

Richard C. Banks

Howard Barnes

Frederick M. Bayer

John H. Beaman

Silvio A. Bedini

Alan M. Berkun

Susan F. Blaine

Frank Blase, Jr.

Kent C. Boese

Alberto Bolaffi

Louis Bowen 

(from the Estate of

Edward Bragaline)

Q. David Bowers

Alan Bronstein

Roy Brooks

David E. Browning

Lonnie Bunch

Marilyn Burgard

Karen Burgess

Robyn J. Burnham

Elizabeth A. Cain

Chris Canaday

Joseph R. Chesen

Chinedu Chukueggu

Shyvonne L. Coleman

Richard Condit

Jorge Conte-Porras

Richard Cooke

Mireya D. Correa

Stan Cotton

James D. Crum

Joseph F. Cullman, 3rd

Gerald H. Crown

Mr.William G. Dakin

Emma L. Dana

Arunabha Dasgupta

Ronald E. G. Davies

Georgina de Alba

William and 

Janet de Camp

Frederica B. de Castro

David DeVorkin

Marco Diaz

Mrs. John Dick

George Dress

Bettina Engelbrecht

Guido Faleschini

George Feist

Sona Holman Fink

Bernard Finn

Nico Mario Franz

James H. Fraser

Remy Fredrikz

Bevan M. French 

Ib Friis

Timothy F. Garrard

Gordon D. Gibson

Jane R. Glaser

Steven L. Grafe 

Roda Graham

Fernando Santos Granero

P. Gysin

Julia Haiblen

R. Cargill Hall

John A. Hammack

M. G. Harasewych

James W. Hatfield, III

Stanley Heckadon Moreno

Joe A. Hewitt

May Brawley Hill

Robert S. Hoffmann

Allan J. Hruska

Otto Huber

James S. Hutchins

Jefffrey N. Hyson

Roberto Ibanez

C. Krydz Ikwuemesi

Rose Issa

Veronika Jenke

Pat Jernigan

Paul Jordan

Ann Juneau

Mary Ann Jung

Martin R. Kalfatovic

John R. Kalina

Jari Karhu

David Kaufmann

Gale Dunn Kaufmann

Nancy Kaufmann

Craig S. Korr

Coenraad Krijger

Evgeny Kurochkin

Atta Kwami

Biodun Ladipo

Tammy Lau

Gwendolen R. Leighty

Arkady S. Lelej

Elton M.C. Leme

Olga Linares

Elena Lombardo

Harri Lorenzi

James F. Luhr

James L. Luteyn

James F. Lynch

Art Maniker

Cesare R. Marino

Joe Marshall

Peter Martin

Cora Lee Martins

Brian H. Mason

Linda McCann

Mrs. Robert J. McCloskey

James G. Mead

Hector R. Mena

Eustorgio Mendez

William L. Merrill

Laure Meyer

Susan Meyers

Eileen Michaelis

Leonor G. Motta

Conchita Ndege

Robert W. Nicholls

Anibal Pastor Nunez

Timothy O’Keeffe

Chika Okeke

Donald Oresman

Donald J. Ortner

Mrs. Alfred J. Ostheimer

Dotun Osunsanya

Kyu-Tek Park

Torrance R. Parker

Osbjorn M. Pearson

John Pemberton, III

Jean Pericart

Dominick A. Pisano

Pedro M. Pruna

M. Elizabeth 

Py-Lieberman

Clayton E. Ray

Robert J. Recks

Janet W. Reid

Martin Reuss

Leslie G. Rix

Gabriel Robles

Alexander Rojas

Clyde F. E. Roper

Melvin H. Rosen

Gary Rosenberg

Reid Ross

Christopher D. Roy

Ira Rubinoff

Julia Velazquez Runk

Edward Ryan

Fernando Santos

Adriana Sautu

Greg Schmidt

Trevor Schoonmaker

Suzanne Seligman

Frank L. Sente

Joshua Shapiro

Courtney A. Shaw

David Shayt

Katia Silvera M.

Theresa A. Singleton

Richard E. Small.

Alan P. Smith

Neal G. Smith

Frances D. Smyth

Paul Y. Sondaar

Robert T. Soppelsa

Paul J. Spangler

Victor G. Springer

Charles Staines

Laurel Beth Stephenson

Katherine M. Sthreshley

Jeffrey Stine

Marilyn Symmes

Jane Swartland

Joan Talbert

Paul M. Taylor

Kevin Tedesco

Wibke Thies

Wendy Thomas

Claudio Goncalves Tiago

Herbert A. Trenchard

Charles S. Tumosa

Terry T. Turner

Guy van Rijn

Richard P. Vari

Francisco Vazquez

Jorge Ventocilla

Robert Vernet

Sergei V. Vickulin

Robert Vogel

James H. Wade

I. E. Wallen

Mr. and Mrs. James W.

Walsh

J. Benedict Warren

James C. Watkins 

Richard J. Wattenmaker

Barry C. Weaver

Tony Whitten

Ronald S. Wilkinson

Linda Starr Willetts

Frank H. Winter

Richard F. Winter

Mrs. Charles E. Winters

Penina M. Wissner 

Richard P. Wunder 

Stephen P. Yanoviak

African Research Centre,

Kampala, Uganda

Ambassador for Colombia

to the United States

American Ordnance

Preservation

Association, Ltd.

Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy

Cadet Class 42-B

Association,

Coulterville, California

Canadian Wildlife Service,

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Center for Tropical 

Forest Science,

Smithsonian Tropical

Research Institute

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DONORS TO THE COLLECTION
$100,000 and up

Joseph F. Cullman 3rd 

$25,000 - $99,999

James M. Kemper Jr.

Marvin Breckinridge

Patterson 

Ruth Lawson Webb

$5,000 - $24,999 

Bucyrus International, Inc. 

Dames & Moore Group

The Dibner Fund, 

Frances and David Dibner

David Rockefeller

$2,000 - $4,999 

Elizabeth W. Gwinn

Nancy E. Gwinn and 

John Y. Cole 

Elizabeth W. and 

Robert E. Krueger

Rosemary Livingston Ripley 

Shelby Shapiro 

Allan Stypek

Betty J. and 

F. Christian Thompson

$1,000 - $1,999

The American Society for 

Macro Engineering

Anonymous

Frederick M. Bayer

Linda and John F. Byrne 

Shirley M. Gifford 

Clare and Albert Glassell Jr. 

John B. Henry 

Sol M. Linowitz 

Susan and Martin Lipton 

Philip Morris Companies 

Ruth Osterweis Selig 

Shirley and Albert H. Small 

Ann and Thomas Unterberg 

Wasserstein Perella

Foundation Trust 

Frank A. Weil 

L. Charlotte Wineland 

$500 - $999 

Jeannine Smith Clark 

Florence Fearrington 

Cordell W. Hull 

John F. Jameson 

David H. Jeffries 

Alice Stockton Konze 

Gwendolen R. and 

Bruce H. Leighty 

Roman Martinez, IV 

Brian H. Mason 

Philip W. Pillsbury 

Barbara J. Smith 

Janet L. Stanley 

Margaret A. Stanley 

$250 - $499 

Bill Lambert 

Rodris Roth 

Sheri Sandler 

Manuel Schwar

Russell E. Train 

Bruce Wasserst

Wilbur Smith A

$100 - $249 

Michael Armbru

Judith S. Boerg

Ruth G. Brenna

Mary Griggs Bu

Janet Caristo-Ve

Margaret L. Cop

Mary Lou Cowd

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Jonathon and P

England Foun

Douglas E. Evel

Marc Goldberg 

Henry M. Hoyt 

Catherine E. La

Marian S. MacI

Nancy Mistretta 

Simon Ottenber

Russell Shank 

Stanwyn G. Shet

Ulf Andreas Wh

SUPPORTING THE LIBRARIES’ EFFORTS

SPENCER BAIRD SOCIETY CHARTER MEMBERS (includes memberships through Jan. 2000)

8

Benefactors 

Nancy Wineland Castle

Joseph F. Cullman 3rd

Emma L. Dana

Frances and David Dibner

Elizabeth Eustis

James Fraser

Richard E. Gray

Elizabeth W. Gwinn

Nancy E. Gwinn and 

John Y. Cole

Darlene and Brian Heidtke

J. Roderick Heller III

Gale Dunn Kaufman

Nancy Keet

James M. Kemper Jr.

Elizabeth W. and 

Robert E. Krueger

Shirley Loo

Margery F. Masinter

Eileen Michaelis

Paula Paster Michtom

Eleanor Smallwood Niebell

Marvin Breckinridge

Patterson

Elizabeth Pitts

Rosemary Livingston Ripley

Elizabeth and 

Cameron Sanders, Jr.

Shelby Shapiro

Virginia and Henry Sheffield

Fran Smyth

Allan Stypek

Betty J. and 

F. Christian Thompson

Johanna W. Thompson

Ruth Lawson Webb 

Patrons

Frederick M. Bayer

Mary Griggs Burke

Linda and John F. Byrne

David Challinor

Shirley M. Gifford

John B. Henry

John F. Jameson

David H. Jeffries

Howard Phipps Jr.

Ruth Osterweis Selig

Lionel J. Skidmore

Shirley and Albert H. Small 

Aileen B. and 

Russell E. Train

Ann and Thomas Unterberg

L. Charlotte Wineland

Associates

Jeannine Smith 

Robert M. Clata

Bridget Colman

Florence Fearri

Marguerite Peet 

Don Griffith

Susan Hermano

Alice Stockton K

Gwendolen R. a

Bruce H. Leig

Josephine Loy

Roman Martine

Brian H. Mason

Nancy Gray

Tamara Rebank

Cynthia Van Alle

Barbara J. Smit

Janet L. Stanley

Margaret A. Sta

Mary Augusta a

George Thom

Photography Credits

We thank the following photographers. For pp. 1,2, 

Holbert and Exec. Committee; p. 2, Cynthia Frankenburg 

Branch; p. 4, Richard Strauss, Smithsonian Office of Ima

and Photography, for Suleiman; p. 5, Hugh Talman, Smit

of Imaging, Printing and Photography, for Resident Scho

Smithsonian Office of Imaging, Printing and Photography 

and “Atsina Camp”; p. 7, Jon Goell for 1909 book.

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J. D. Larreátegui, Chiranthodendron

(1805)

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