Object Details
- Author
- Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
- Subject
- Division of Radiation and Organisms Smithsonian Insitution Building
- Radiation and Biology Laboratory Division of Radiation and Organisms
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- This image was taken by Ruel P. Tolman, artist, curator and later Director of Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and is included in a scrapbook of photographs of Smithsonian staff, grounds and buildings, exhibitions, and Washington, D.C., scenes.
- See Neg. #SIA2011-0176 for a partial view of the experiment. In 1929, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Division of Radiation and Organisms, later the Smithsonian Radiation Biology Laboratory, was established by Secretary Charles G. Abbot. The Division's purpose was to undertake investigations of the effect of solar radiation on living organisms, mainly plants.
- Summary
- An experiment set up by the Division of Radiation and Organisms whose laboratory was located in the west end of the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle', and a view of a wall of the laboratory.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Record Unit 7433, Box 3, Folder 1 Scrapbook II, 1934-1942, "A-N."
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1930s
- Standard number
- SIA2011-0175 and Neg. #32279-4
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 2.25w x 2.25h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Science rooms and equipment
- Research--Equipment and supplies
- Laboratories
- Experiments
- Basements
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12804
