SI Staff Use Smithsonian Metro Station Farecard Vending Machines

Summary

Caption from Torch: "Six hundred eighty-five Smithsonian staffers gathered in the new Metro station on June 17 for a guided tour and explanation of the system by Metro officials. The initiation must have helped because an unofficial count shows that delighted station users include many SI employees who had never ridden the Metro until the blue line opened on July 1. In the photograph, a group of employees try out an automatic farecard machine."

Subject

• Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Notes

• Original film available in SIA Acc. 11-009.
• Featured in the "Torch," August 1977.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: August 1977, Image No. 77-8307-09

Repository Loc.

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

Date

• 1977
• June 17, 1977

Restrictions & Rights

• No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
• No Copyright - United States

Topic

• Local transit
• Subway stations

Form/Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Local number

SIA RU000371 [77-8307-09]

Physical description

Gelatin silver prints; 5 x 8;

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