Groundbreaking for Freer Gallery
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PrintActing Secretary Richard Rathbun gives a brief address and turns the first spadeful of earth to start the construction of the Freer Gallery of Art.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 23, 1916