20 Millionth Visitor at National Air and Space Museum
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Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1978
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: August 1978, Image No. 78-9463-07
From Torch article: "The National Air and Space Museum recorded its 20 millionth visitor at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 9- two years and eight days after its formal opening...Fourteen-year-old Katherine Rinehart, of Charlottesville, Va., was greeted by David Challinor, Smithsonian assistant secretary for science, and Melvin Zisfein, the Museum's acting director, as she walked through the building's Jefferson Drive entrance."
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: August 1978, Image No. 78-9463-07
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU000371 [78-9463-07]
Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 10;