Exterior View of the South Shed Prior to Demolition

ID: SIA RU000371 [75-6938]

Creator: Neufeld, Harry B

Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: September 1975, Image No. 75-6938

Summary

South Shed in the South Yard of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle.

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Original film available in SIA Acc. 11-009.
Featured in the "Torch," September 1975.
The South Shed, built in 1898, was used as Samuel P. Langley's Aerodrome Shop and later for taxidermy. It has also been referred to as the Annex and later, as the "Bug House" or "Beetle House." It was demolished in 1975 in preparation for the Victorian Garden which opened in 1976.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: September 1975, Image No. 75-6938

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

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Black-and-white photographs

SIA RU000371 [75-6938]

8 x 10;