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title:Removal of James Smithson's Coffin
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  date:
  
  label:Date
  content:1903


  name:
  
  label:Author
  content:Bell, Mabel

  
  label:Subject
  content:Smithson, James 1765-1829

  
  label:Subject
  content:Bell, Alexander Graham 1847-1922

  
  label:Subject
  content:Bell, Mabel


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  label:Category
  content:Historic Images of the Smithsonian

  
  label:Notes
  content:Original negative number is 71-57-4, but that negative has been lost.

  
  label:Summary
  content:The coffin containing the remains of James Smithson is being carried out of the Genoa, Italy cemetery where his body had been buried. Notified that the cemetery was to be destroyed, Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel went to Italy to oversee the exhumation of Smithson's remains and their transfer to Washington, D.C. Smithson's grave was opened on December 31, 1903.

  
  label:Contained within
  content:Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 56 Folder 6

  
  label:Contact information
  content:Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu


  place:
  
  label:Place
  content:Genoa (Italy)


  topic:
  
  label:Topic
  content:Burial

  
  label:Topic
  content:Smithson family

  
  label:Topic
  content:Regents

  
  label:Topic
  content:Cemeteries

  
  label:Topic
  content:Coffins


  dataSource:
  
  label:Data Source
  content:Smithsonian Archives - History Div


  identifier:
  
  label:Standard number
  content:2002-12196


  objectType:
  
  label:Type
  content:Photographic print

  
  label:Type
  content:Other


  objectRights:
  
  label:Restrictions & Rights
  content:No restrictions


  physicalDescription:
  
  label:Physical description
  content:Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Other; Medium: Photographic print



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   Bell, Alexander Graham
   Bell, Mabel

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   Smithson family
   Coffins
   Regents

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   1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

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