The National Institute for the Promotion of Science acquired James Smithson’s personal effects, displaying them in the National Gallery of the Patent Office beginning in 1842. This is one of Smithson’s calling cards, or carte de visite, from 1825. The Patent Office is now home to the Smithsonian’s Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.
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