Library, Lower Main Hall, Smithsonian Institution Building
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution Building Lower Main Hall
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Used in Field, Stamm & Ewing. THE CASTLE, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SMITHSONIAN BUILDING (p. 64)
- Summary
- The Library at the east end of Lower Main Hall, now called the Great Hall, of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), also known as the "Castle." There is a woman reshelving (or retrieving) a book in the center of the photograph.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95, Box 31, Folder: 38 and Record Unit 95, Box 37A, Folder: 10
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1914
- Standard number
- 60591 or MAH-60591 or 521880
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Smithsonian Institution Building--Great Hall
- Libraries
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8283
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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