Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Eames, Charles
- Arts and Industries Building
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. # 66727-15 for a view of the balloon hanging in the Rotanda of the Arts and Industries Building.
- Summary
- Workers prepare a hot air balloon to hang in the Rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building. The centerpiece of the Charles Eames exhibit 'Photography and the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science', which opened June 6, 1968, the balloon was used to illustrate the method used to take the first aerial photo in the United States.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 11-008
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- May 28, 1968
- Standard number
- OPA-1353-15
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown
- Type
- Exhibit
- Negative
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 1.5 w x 1h (35mm); Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Black and White Negative
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Interiors
- National Collections
- Arts and Industries Building--Rotunda
- Photography and the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science
- Rotundas
- Photography
- Exhibitions
- Balloons
- Record ID
- siris_sic_5956
