Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- Arts and Industries Building
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Original negative number is 8803, but that negative has been lost. See Semi-Annual Report of Superintendent of Bldgs, 12/31/1887, RU198.
- Summary
- Whale cast in the Mammals exhibit in the South Hall of the Arts and Industries Building, before the 1887 relocation (it was moved from its mount and suspended from ceiling). There are packing crates in the foreground, and there is a guard walking past the whale cast.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 43 Folder 1
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1885
- Standard number
- 2002-12204
- 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
- Interiors
- South Hall of the United States National Museum
- Packing crates
- Guard Force
- Mammals
- Whales
- Exhibitions
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9297
