Interior details: East Wing and Range

Photograph, 1862, Titian Ramsey Peale Smithsonian Institution negative #X3253

View of the interior of the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The Music Room in the Joseph Henry apartments was visible from the dining room through the connecting parlor. The artist Titian Ramsey Peale, a personal friend of Secretary Henry, photographed the apartments in the summer of 1862.

Photograph, 1900 Smithsonian Institution negative #13406

Interior view of the fourth floor of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The space served as the Law Library and the old Smithsonian Institutuion Archives office. A tin ceiling, a Harvard stove, a Smithson tablet and a bust of Joseph Henry were all visible in the photograph.

Photograph, 1992, Richard W. Strauss Smithsonian Institution negative #92-16572

Color photograph of the interior of the East Range of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The Under Secretary's Office on the second floor previously served as the Art Room, which originally opened in 1903. Original furnishings such as three chairs and the Hornblower & Marshall table were returned to the room in 1900.

Photograph, 1992, Richard W. Strauss Smithsonian Institution negative #92-16578

Color photograph of the interior of the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building. The second floor room became the Secretary's Meeting Room in 1984 after the appointment of Robert McCormick Adams as Smithsonian Secretary. The signed secretary's desk to the left of the window was made by Isaac Vose and Sons of Boston around 1820.

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