The Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract donated to the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 2019, offers a unique glimpse at the family dynamics that shaped James Smithson into our founding ...

Any revisions to the Downtown properties, including demolition, will be subject to Jacksonville Historic Preservation ...

Wealthy British globe-trotter James Smithson (1765-1829) had amassed an estate worth roughly $500,000 at the time of his ...

Elder in 1899. A packet boat arrived in New York harbor carrying one hundred and five bags of gold, the fortune of British mineralogist James Smithson. Smithson had never set a foot on North ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing a contentious squabble over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition Alice George The 1787 Hungerford Deed, donated ...

James Smithson was the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland, third creation. His mother was a lineal descendant of Henry VII. Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared ...

The Institution was founded in 1846 with funds from the Englishman James Smithson (1765–1829) according to his wishes “under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase ...