Repair of National Museum of Natural History's Rotunda Dome
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Creator: Beck, Jane
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1988
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: January 1989
Scaffolding erected so workmen could scale the heights to repair plaster on National Museum of Natural History's (NMNH) rotunda dome. During renovation, visitors could still see the African bush elephant from the edges of the blocked-off rotunda floor or from a balcony above. For protection, the popular pachyderm was temporarily housed in an enclosure swathed in plastic.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in Torch, January 1989
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: January 1989
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1988
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2003-19488
Color: Black and White; Size: 8 x 10; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print