A group of Smithsonian Employees in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building on February 9, 1927 in connection with a test of the lights in preparation for the group shot of the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian. The employees are (left to right): Row 1: Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian; Charles G. Abbot, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian; Row 2: J. U. Perkins; Nicholas W. Dorsey; Walter Hough; Ruel P. Tolman; Row 3: Leonhard Stejneger; Paul Bartsch; Clarence R. Shoemaker; Frederick L. Lewton; J. H. Hill; Charles Elmer Resser; Ray S. Bassler
Row 4: John Merton Aldrich; John R. Ellingston; William P. True; George P. Merrill; William F. Foshag; Charles W. Gilmore; Earl V. Shannon; Row 5: James S. Goldsmith; Loyal B. Aldrich; Herbert W. Krieger; Henry Bascom Collins, Jr.; Jesse Walter Fewkes; J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton) Hewitt; Row 6: Arthur H. Clark; William L. Corbin; Mrs. D. P. Hulsizer; Leonard C. Gunnell; M. A. Tolson; Row 7: Gerrit S. Miller; James W. Gidley; Row 8: C. R. Denmark (Engineer, USNM); W. H. Goldsmith; J. S. Prescott; Row 9: I. S. Dyer; J. F. Brazerol; Frank H. Cole; S. F. Williams; Harry C. Taylor
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