National Museum of History and Technology - Dorothy Briggs Restores Early American Pottery

ID: SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1560R1]

Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division

Form/Genre: Black-and-white negatives

Date: 1969

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 14, Image No. OPA-1560R1

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Summary

Dorothy Briggs, restoration specialist at the National Museum of History and Technology, restores a Staffordshire pearlware bowl, c. 1790, excavated from a privy at the rear of Arrel's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria by Richard J. Muzzrole, museum technician in the Division of Cultural History.

Subject

  • Briggs, Dorothy
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs

Notes

  • Digital contact sheet available.
  • Frame selection featured in "The Torch," September 1969.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-008, Box 14, Image No. OPA-1560R1

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1969
  • August 24, 1969

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Topic

  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Form/Genre

Black-and-white negatives

Local number

SIA Acc. 11-008 [OPA-1560R1]

Physical description

35mm;

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