Object Details
- Author
- Strauss, Richard
- Subject
- Mathias, Charles McC (Charles McCurdy) 1922-
- Hines, Anson "Tuck"
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
- Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies
- Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB)
- United States Congress Senate
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in "Torch," August 1989
- Summary
- On a tour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) new Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory, SERC scientist Tuck Hines shows Senator Mathias a tank for Chesapeake blue crabs. The opening of the new laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, was celebrated on June 1, 1989. The laboratory was named for Sen. "Mac" Mathias, former U.S. Senator from Maryland (1968-1986), who championed legislation to protect the Chesapeake Bay from over-development and pollution.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: August 1989
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- June 1, 1989
- Standard number
- SIA2011-1027 and 89-10018-29
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Openings
- Environmental research
- Laboratories
- Scientists
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Edgewater, Maryland
- Chesapeake Bay (MD)
- Record ID
- siris_sic_5747
