Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Meigs, Montgomery C (Montgomery Cunningham) 1816-1892
- Sherman, William T (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891
- Parker, Peter
- Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
- Cluss, Adolph 1825-1905
- Rhees, William Jones 1830-1907
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States National Museum
- Board of Regents
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Negative # 1475 was used to add Rhees and Leech to this photograph.
- Summary
- The National Museum Building Committee stand in an unfinished doorway of the new United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building, while it is under construction. From the left: General Montgomery C. Meigs; General William Tecumseh Sherman, Smithsonian Regent and Chairman of Building Committee; Peter Parker, Smithsonian Regent; Spencer F. Baird, Smithsonian Secretary; Adolph Cluss, Architect; W. J. Rhees, Chief Clerk; Daniel Leech, Correspondence Clerk.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder: 43
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1880
- Standard number
- 78-10099
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Leech, Daniel
- National Museum Building Committee
- Construction
- Secretaries
- Museum buildings
- Regents
- Architecture
- New Museums
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10294
