Geology Exhibit, Natural History Building
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CloseID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B44_F18_014]
Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1926
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 18, Image No. SIA_000095_B44_F18_014
Detail view, United States National Museum geology exhibit in the Natural History Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, featuring flake of the first gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, February 1848, by James W. Marshall; cabinet card photograph of James W. Marshall; copy of letter of authentication; from the Roebling Collection, the largest gold nugget found in many years at Union Placer Mine, near Greenville, Plumas County, California.
USNM No. 33476
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 18, Image No. SIA_000095_B44_F18_014
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B44_F18_014]
Gelatin silver prints; 10 x 8;