Engraving of Coral Reefs
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States National Museum Division of Marine Invertebrates
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- From "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington." New York: Brentano Brothers, 1886. Page 23
- Summary
- Engraving of an illustration by J. Girard (Fig. 12) in "A Handbook to the National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington" of coral reefs, "...reefs which in circular form make the atolls of the Pacific, or in straight banks act as barriers for continental shores."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Information File Box 13 Folder Smithsonian Guide Books, 1886 (Brentano Bros.)
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1886
- Standard number
- 95-20337
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Exhibitions
- Visitor's Guide
- Department of Zoology (USNM)
- Marine invertebrates
- Coral reef ecology
- Coral reefs and islands
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10407
- Metadata Usage (text)
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