Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- United States Bureau of War Risk Insurance
- United States National Museum
- Natural History Building
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Yochelson: 66-67. AR 1918: 14-15.
- Summary
- Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance work at makeshift desks packed into areas not meant for offices, such as one of the display spaces of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History Building. The Bureau first moved into the building in October 1917. At the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, and made available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq. ft.) for the duration of the war for wartime activities. The museum reopened to the public in April 1919.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 26
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1918
- Standard number
- 23905 or MAH-23905
- 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
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Federal Government
- Wartime Activities
- World War, 1914-1918
- Women
- Museum buildings
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8262
