Object Details
- Author
- B.S. Reynolds Co. Washington, DC
- Subject
- United States National Museum
- Arts and Industries Building
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- The Arts and Industries Building was designed by two Philadelphia architects: Adolph Cluss and Rudolph Schulze.
- 1721 in bottom left-hand corner on the front.
- For another version of this postcard, see Negatives SIA2013-06643 and SIA2013-06644.
- Summary
- Postcard with an exterior view of the old United States National Museum building, now known as the Arts and Industries Building. 1721 is in the bottom left-hand corner on the front. The front has a white border. An American Flag is flying above the museum, and two people sit on a bench under a tree. On the message side there is a printed note about the museum: "The National Museum contains the Government collections, comprising millions of objects of scientific and artistic interest, collected from all quarters of the globe."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 32, Folder: 9
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1915-1930
- Standard number
- 2003-19543 (front) and SIA2013-07201 (back)
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Postcard
- Architecture
- Paper
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 5.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Paper
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Museum buildings
- Postcard
- Architecture--Washington (D.C.)
- Flags
- American Flag
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10205
