Object Details
- Author
- Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933
- Subject
- Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Looking south from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street, the silhouette of the Smithsonian Institution Building is seen in the distance. The photograph, taken by William Henry Holmes and signed "W.H.H. Phot.," shows horse-drawn carriages along the avenue of storefronts. Above the first building to the right of 11th Street, the sign reads "Latimer & Cleary Auction and Commission Merchants", the next building has a sign "Star Buildings," and the third building "Metropolitan."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 67, Folder: 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- April 10, 1874
- Standard number
- 48646 or MAH-48646
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Landscape
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Buildings--Washington, D.C
- Carriages
- Carriages and carts
- Horses
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Signs
- Signs and signboards
- Stores, Retail
- Buildings, structures, etc
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9273
