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This room is located in Carnegie Mansion.

Right now there are 18 objects in this room out of the 76 that have ever been here.

An anatomical model of a Ricinus Communis comonly known as a a castor bean or castor oil plant.Three prickly forked magenta extensions rise out of a greenish brown bulb with upward curved spines. Folded browish green leaves hang underneath with a thick green stem. It is glued to a vertical rod which is mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Ricinus Communis, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.1

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An anatomical model of a white tipped green flower and light green stemmed Rhamnus Frangula, commonly known as an alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Rhamnus Frangula, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.2

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An light green internal anatomical model view of a Ficus Carica, fig tree, glued to a vertical rod mounted on a black stepped base with an affixed paper label. The inside of the fig has light brown seeds grouped around the triangle shaped bed and light green flesh. The second rod holds a long white stem with a brown polinating seed.

Model, Ficus Carica, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.3

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Two antatomical models of waxy lavendar purple petaled Daphne Mezereum, commonly known as a February Daphne with five light brown seeds in the middle. They rise from a slanted green branch glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Daphne Mezereum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.4

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An anatomical model of a four light purple centered white petaled flower, light brown viened Aesculus Hippocastanum, or horse chestnut. Six white stamens rise out of the center with brown seed pods at the end. A hefty green stem is glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Model, Aesculus Hippocastanum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.5

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An anatomical model of a white Sambucus Nigra, a Europena elderberry. Five white petals surround five long white stamens branching away from the tan interior bud with a curved light green stem. It is glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Model, Sambucus Nigra, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.6

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One model depicts the inside of the flower. The green bottom leads to a white rounded bead shaped bumps. Light brown nodules, divided in four, repeat around the stick. Above are spiny thorns coming out of bumps leading to a grayish slender stick with a rounded top The second model object on the left his a green folded standing leaf with a purple slender peaking up from the middle. They are glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Arum Maculatum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.7

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Here we have two sculptures of a green plant and its growing stages sharing one base stand. The front piece has a large seed pod shaped like a giant flower bud. The pod is opening at the top with two thick, bumpy stems emerging and curling outward. Behind it is a horizontal stem with large black spots and patches of wispy hairs attached to a base. From the horizontal stem a bundle of green pods resembling peppers are encased by an rectangular shell of leaves, as if they were protecting the green pods and are, at last, opening.

Model, Juglans Regia
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.8

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This is a sculpture of a green plant attached to a base. The plant resembles a giant inward-curling leaf, and where it's primarily green, it also has red stems and veins. A-symmetrically shaped, the model curves upward to an opening at the top; along the side of the plant is a single leaf sticking out, as if it is excess after it had curled inward on itself. The top of the plant has an opening that leads to a encased, bulging center.

Model, Sarracenia Purpurea
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.9

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A light blue flower emerges and extends from its browning bud. The model depicts the blue flower unfurling a single, languid petal, while its other half stands upward and half-closed. Barely visible is the flower's style inside. At the bottom of the blue flower is a white and brown bud, with its triangular leaves still upright. The bud is attached to a green, rectangular, diagonal support, and the support is attached to a base.

Model, Salvia Officinalis
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.10

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Here we have a white flower in bloom from a green stem. The purple style made of rounded triangles pokes up from the center, surrounded by five white petals. The opened petlas have a small, curling spikes on their surface. The green stem is thick and has rounded triangular leaves and is attached to the base.

Model, Menyanthes Trifoliate
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.11

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These two sculptures share the same base and flower type. The pink flower is fully bloomed with heart shaped leaves, and numerous, thin, white filament with yellow anthers coming from a green center. The five heart petals of the flower gradient from pink on the end to white, and have dark pink veins across the surface. The stem is green and boasts small ovular leaves with spiked edges. The anatomical model next to the flower is as if the stem and closed bud were cut down the middle to reveal the inside of the flower: shaped like a lightbulb, there is a fuzzy brown pit in the middle with thin white filament through the tapering part of the bud. From the top of the filaments are small rounded anthers, exposed outside of the closed bud.

Model, Rosa Canina
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.12

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Emerging from a long straight stem, slender green leaves hang vertically downward from the center and droop around the stem. Above them, white curling petals dance in bloom. Unlike most petals, these long white petals are shaped like a bean but are open, and at their top, taper from thin curl into what looks like another petal entirely, but is in fact an attached leaf-shape, light yellow in color. It is as if another petal grew out of the white bean petal, but are all attached as a unit. From the center, long, straight styli stick out and transition from a dark maroon to a pink to white.

Model, Theobroma Cacao
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.13

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This illustration has a framing rectangle of a realistic banana and its anatomical growth stages and parts numbered but unordered. A full illustration of a ripe, unpeeled banana has green on either ends and takes up most of the left side of the frame. To its right on the top of the frame, is a black and white and yellow illustration of one end of a banana with parts of a flower emerging from the top, and the written number 2 next to it. On the right of that is an illustration with a number 1, showing a misshapen banana with petals and flowers emerging from the top. Underneath that are two black and white illustrations, 3 and 4, of the flowers stylus and pistil (3) and the stylus open (4). At the bottom are illustrations number 5 and 7: 5 is small unripened bottom of banana, cut across the top, revealing a seed formation in the middle. On the right is 7: a color drawing of a ripened banana cut across the top in the same manner, showing a progressed seed formation in the center. To the left of the full banana illustration, is a black and white a black and white illustration numbered 8, showing roots and new growth. Outside of the rectangular frame, there is text at the top reads '54 bis,' and the text at the bottom reads 'BANANIER' in all caps, with a small signature on the bottom right of the framing rectangle.

Bananier, Plate 54, Flore Médicale, 1814
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.3

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A print of a Tasconia Pinnatistipula, a species of flower, spread across two pages vertically. Two pale fuscia flowers are at center. One is a closed bulb and the other has bloomed showing the green and yellow pistil and stamen within the flower. Dark green pistils peak through the closed petals. A dark, hunter green stem travels along the right side of the pages with vines and the two flowers budding off of it. Below the closed flower is a green tomatoe hanging from the plant. On the bottom of the page in a script font reads 'Tasconia Pinnatistipula.'

Plate, Tasconia Pinnatistipula , Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.5

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The vertical composition echoes the two long stemmed flowers wilting on the page. Long, fuscia petals dangle limply from the stems, the left flower exposes the inner yellow stamen. The fuscia petals fade from a dark pink on the ends of the petals to almost white as it connects to the pistil. On the right, the back of the flower is facing the viewer exposing the sepal. Below the flowers are ruffled leaves in many tones of green with brown veins. On the bottom of the page in a script font reads 'Sarracenia Purpurea.'

Plate, Sarracenia Purpurea, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.8

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Detailed botanical illustration of Odontoglossum grande spread across two pages horizontally. The orchids are set against a tan colored background. The perspective of the illustration is from a top view, exposing the inside of each bloomed orchid. The petals are a blotched pattern of mahogany and white. Some petals are mostly mahogany with a golden-yellow tip. A few wilting petals are a cool purple and white color. The inner pistils and stamen extend from the center of each orchid in bright yellow. Dark green stems and leaves emerge from where the page is binded at center. On the right side of the right page in a script font reads 'Odontoglossom grande.'

Plate, Odontoglossum Grande, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.9

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Plate 71, Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. / Systematically arranged by J.G. Heck. Translated from the German, with additions, and edited by Spencer F. Baird ... illustrated by five hundred steel plates, containing upwards of twelve

Plate 71, Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. /...
printed paper.
Smithsonian Libraries.
23.2018.4

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