Elizabeth Snyder Roberts papers, [ca.1880].

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Elizabeth Snyder Roberts papers, [ca.1880].

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Roberts' description of a visit to the Jersey City, New Jersey home of her friend Erminine A. Platt Smith, a geologist and ethnologist, who was a student of Iroquois folklore employed in the 1880's by the Smithsonian Institute.

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New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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New York State Historical Documents (Albany, N.Y.)

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...