Thomas Smillie

Nephew (Washington, D.C.), 1900, Thomas Smillie, Cabinet card, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, LL/46845

Thomas Smillie

Born: Thomas William Smillie
Other: T.W. Smillie
Other: Thomas W. Smillie

Born: 1843 - GB, Scotland, Edinburgh
Died: 1917
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
A native of Edinburgh, Scoland, he served as Smithsonian Official Photographer (1871-1917) and Honorary Custodian of the Section of Photography (1896-1917) at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, USA) where he remained for nearly 50 years. He took photographs of significant items within the collections as a visual record often as cyanotypes. In 1913 he mounted an exhibition of photographs to show the advances within photography and its importance in documentation.

Genealogy of Thomas Smillie

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