Object Details
- Author
- Davis, Fremont
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Science Service negative 93-3
- Summary
- Fabrics of the Future Exhibit installed in a display window at the Woodward & Lothrop Department Store, G and 12th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. A group of women and a man are looking at the display which includes a mannequin dressed with hat, jacket and skirt. Placards have been placed to identify objects in the exhibit. The exhibit featured such synthetic fabrics as nylon and rayon.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091, Science Service Records, Box 408, Folder 23 and Box 457
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1938-1939
- Standard number
- 2005-10444
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Group, candid
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Clothing and dress
- Exhibitions
- Mannequins (figures)
- Public buildings
- Stores, Retail
- Textile fabrics
- Traveling exhibitions
- Women
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11419
