Paul E. Desautels
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Object Details
- Author
- Sandved, Kjell Bloch 1922-
- Subject
- Desautels, Paul E
- United States National Museum
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of the museum in 1975.
- In 1957 Desautels left teaching to take a position as Curator of Gems and Minerals in the Department of Mineral Sciences of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, DC, a position he was to hold for the next 25 years. During his tenure as Curator he actively pursued acquisitions. One of his foremost achievements was the acquisition in 1970 of the Carl Bosch collection of 25,000 mineral specimens.
- See Negs. SIA2013-03902 through SIA2013-03905 for other photos of Paul Desautels.
- Summary
- Paul E. Desautels (1920-1991), a mineralogist, curator of the Department of Gems and Minerals, at the National Museum of Natural History, holds a mineral specimen in his hands. Storage cabinets are visible in the background. He was Associate Curator and Curator of the Division of Mineral Sciences from 1963-1983.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1975
- Standard number
- SIA2013-03903
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Person, candid
- Slide
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Color ; Size: 1"w x 1 3.7"h ; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Slide
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Mineralogists
- Mineralogy
- Museum curators
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Specimens
- Record ID
- siris_sic_14266
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