Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Zanier, John
- Arts and Industries Building
- United States National Museum
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- This work is discussed on page 33 of the 1901 United States National Museum Annual Report. Original negative number is MNH-9307.
- Summary
- Laborers can be seen preparing for a new floor of marble and terrazzo in the South East Range of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building. They are using a tool called a "galera." The work was done by the National Mosaic Company, owned by John Zanier. Above them are two skeletons hanging from the ceiling, an extinct arctic sea-cow and a whale. On the wall behind them is a display of saws from saw-fish.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 32, Folder 23
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1901
- Standard number
- 2002-12165 and MNH-9307
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Construction
- Fishes
- Renovations
- Specimens
- Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
- Floors
- Skeleton
- Construction workers
- Exhibitions
- Whales
- Marine mammals
- Marble
- Ceilings
- Terrazzo
- National Mosaic Company
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10213
