Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Natural History Building
- United States National Museum
- Baird Auditorium
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Original negative number is 97-3050 and 30048, but that negative has been lost. Printed in USNM Bulletin 80 (Richard Rathbun)
- Summary
- View of the newly completed Baird Auditorium, looking towards the stage, in the new National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. The auditorium is located under the Rotunda. The elegant classically inspired room features a domed ceiling of Guastavino tiles.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 27; Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder: 1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1911
- Standard number
- 2002-12145
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 9.5w x 6.5h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Interiors
- Guastavino tiles
- Museum buildings
- Domes
- Auditoriums
- Tiles
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9368
