Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Harper's Weekly
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- The old negative number is 58753, but that negative could not be found. Identical 5x7 also in the file. For the retouched photograph that is the basis for this engraving, see Negative Number 37082.
- Summary
- An engraving from Harper's Weekly of the burning of the Smithsonian Institution Building, January 24, 1865. In this view there are a number of men on horseback.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder: 9
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1865
- Standard number
- 2002-12222
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Event
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 15w x 3h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Accidents
- Disasters
- Fires
- Horses
- Museum buildings
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9381
