Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Nixon, Richard M (Richard Milhous) 1913-
- Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
- Agnew, Spiro Theodore
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
- Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
- United States President (1969-1974 : Nixon)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Chickens exhibited as part of an exhibit on American farm life at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History. One of these chickens, a Dominican Red rooster, escaped during President Nixon's second Inaugural Ball at the museum on January 20, 1973. Eighth Secretary S. Dillon Ripley captured the escaped chicken while it was bothering a female guest.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 10, Folder 12
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- January 20, 1973
- Standard number
- SIA2009-0415 and 73-688-22A
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Event
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Inaugural Balls
- Chickens
- Inaugurations
- Exhibitions
- Inauguration Day
- Rooster
- Record ID
- siris_sic_11959
