National Museum Building Committee, 1880

Summary

The National Museum Building Committee stand in an unfinished doorway of the new United States National Museum Building, now the Arts and Industries Building, while it is under construction. From the left: General Montgomery C. Meigs; General William Tecumseh Sherman, Smithsonian Regent and Chairman of Building Committee; Peter Parker, Smithsonian Regent; Spencer F. Baird, Smithsonian Secretary; Adolph Cluss, Architect; W. J. Rhees, Chief Clerk; Daniel Leech, Correspondence Clerk.

Subject

• Meigs, Montgomery C (Montgomery Cunningham) 1816-1892
• Sherman, William T (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891
• Parker, Peter
• Baird, Spencer Fullerton 1823-1887
• Cluss, Adolph 1825-1905
• Rhees, William Jones 1830-1907
• Arts and Industries Building
• United States National Museum
• Board of Regents

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Negative # 1475 was used to add Rhees and Leech to this photograph.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder: 43

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1880

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Museum buildings
• Construction
• Architecture
• National Museum Building Committee
• Secretaries
• New Museums
• Leech, Daniel
• Regents

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

78-10099

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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