Hands On History Room

ID: 92-14291-12 or 92-14291.12

Creator: Long, Eric

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1992

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: December 1992

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Summary

The Hands on History Room, located on the second floor of the Museum of American History just around the corner from the Star-Spangled Banner, opened December 8, 1992. 11th graders Jeremy Randall and Rebecca Walther of Watkins Mill High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland got a chance to harness a mule, an activity in the Hands on History Room. Rebecca is the daughter of NMAH Publications Specialist Susan Walther, one of many staffers who worked on the project.

Subject

  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) Hands on History Room

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in Torch, December 1992

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: December 1992

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1992

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Students
  • Education
  • People with disabilities
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Children
  • Museum visitors
  • Museums and people with disabilities
  • Museums--Educational aspects
  • Disabilities

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

92-14291-12 or 92-14291.12

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Persons, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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